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Australians retire too wealthy: Grattan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... before retirement." He argued that touting the ASFA standard as the comfortable standard is misleading because it implies anything less than that is uncomfortable. As evidence, Daley produced surveys of retirees who reported their own perceptions of ...

Chief economist update: ECB exit proves premature

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
If there's anything that's 100% certain, it is that the European Central Bank (ECB) will keep current interest rate settings unchanged - repo at 0.00%; marginal lending facility at 0.25%; deposit facility at -0.40%. Although, given the mounting ...

Australians demand unpaid super laws: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2019
... said this is the only fix that will stop millions of Australians being robbed of their super entitlements every year. "Anything less is a band-aid solution that won't fix the problem and will see millions of Australians end up worse off at retirement." ...

Chief economist update: Countdown to T-day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2019
... a bull market - up 19.6% - in spite of the heavy sell-off over the past few days. But as Murphy's Law dictates, "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong". Not only could it go wrong but it could escalate. This is because if the US and Chinese trade ...

Super, life risk face election test

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
... changes to capital gains tax -will mean yet more uncertainty for investors. "Whereas the Coalition isn't really doing anything," he says. However the problem isn't isolated to one side of the political divide. Griffiths says he's seen more SMSFs close ...

Chief economist update: RBA May cut, May not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019
... the people of Australia." In discerning the RBA's next move, we must look at what it saw at its last meeting and if anything has significantly changed since. "The outlook for the global economy remains reasonable, although growth has slowed and downside ...

Push for chief executive pay ratio disclosure

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2019
... the right to know that their investments are delivering sustainable long-term returns, and that companies are not doing anything to damage shareholder value," she said. "It is essential that the policy makers and regulators build on the momentum generated ...

Chief economist update: Woe to the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019
... when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful." Be careful out there and take stock of Murphy's Law: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." It did go wrong. The VIX and MOVE indices jumped by 20.9% and 17.4%, respectively, at the ...

Chief economist update: Fed on ice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2019
If there's anything that captures the greed on Wall Street, it's the US equity market's reaction to the Fed's decision following its 15-16 March 2019 FOMC meeting. The Fed gave the markets what they expected - it kept the Fed funds rate ...

Chief economist update: BOJ decision announced and ignored

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2019
... concluded a two-day monetary policy meeting not long ago - 14-15 March. Don't worry, you haven't missed much (or anything). Monetary policy remains unchanged - "The bank will continue with "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing (QQE) with ...