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Experts urge govt to do more to boost infra investment

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... hosted by the Australian Centre for Financial Studies (ACFS) and attended by 15 finance experts including academics, economists, credit analysts and senior investment professionals from across the financial services industry, along with staff from ACFS. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
... confidence survey is due out. US Fed Reserve committee member John Williams is down to speak at an Australian Business Economists lunch in Sydney and Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor Malcolm Edey is slated to take part in a panel discussion ...

Fight or be beggared by the neighbours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
Another rate cut is coming, another rate cut is coming. Bloomberg's survey shows (tada!) 18 out of 29 economists expect the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to follow-up February's 25 bps reduction in the official cash rate to 2.25% with another 25 bps ...

Brady Bunch as useful as market commentary: Shane Oliver

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... expanding exponentially, Oliver is far from convinced that the extra available data is improving investor outcomes. "Most economists would say more is better, that more information results in better market efficiency," Oliver said at the SMSF Association ...

FEATURE: Understanding mFund

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
... of assets allocated off-shore. APRA-regulated funds, on the other hand, have more than 30% invested overseas. With economists turning increasingly bearish in their outlook for the domestic economy, calls for investors to up their international exposure ...

Majority wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
You oughta be congratulated! Clap, clap, claps are in order for the six sages (out of 26 economists surveyed by Bloomberg) who correctly anticipated the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) verdict to cut interest rates by 25 bps to a historic low 2.25% ...

When Japan is blah, the Eurozone is ugh and China is wow

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... troubles in the Eurozone and the waning power of Abenomics mean investors will find better odds in the US and China, chief economists said at a Financial Standard forum last week. The videos and presentations are now available to download on FSiTV. Chris ...

Economists divided over Europe growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
Is Europe "dead in the water" or is it going to follow the growth trend in the United States in only two years? Economists at the Financial Standard Chief Economist Forum expressed different views on the future of the old continent. "They are dead in ...

Think of China as the new America

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... world's biggest consumer economy, AXA Investment Management head of Asia Mark Tinker said at the Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum. Speaking to an audience of 650 people that attended the event in Sydney, Tinker argued that "in Australia you've ...

Don't underestimate LNG boom: BNP Paribas

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... enough to really fill the gap." Hayes also had a much more bullish view of where the Aussie dollar is going than most economists, particularly against the euro and the yen. "For the medium to long-term we expect the Aussie dollar to go to about 94 US ...