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Chief economist update: Boom in the USA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2018
... durable and non-durables. Recall that GDP = C+I+G+(X-M). That is, consumer spending plus investment plus government expenditure plus net exports. All of them also contributed to growth in the second quarter. Also aided by tax reductions, investment (I) ...

Chief economist update: Laissez faire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2018
... has gone against Keynes' counter-cyclical prescription by increasing fiscal spending - tax cuts and increased expenditure on infrastructure - at the same time that the US economy is growing at or near potential. Contrary to David Ricardo's principle ...

QSuper cuts administration fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
... "In 2015, we did a root and branch review of our business. As a part of it, we have limited the growth in operating expenditure to 3% p.a. which is below the industry average," Pennisi said. The admin fee cuts have been made possible by investing in ...

Chief economist update: US inflation hits target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2018
Houston, we're on target. The US Income and Outlays account released last Friday showed that US inflation as measured by the US Federal Reserve's favoured gauge - the core PCE price index - is now smack bang where the Fed wants it, rising by ...

Chief economist update: It's always slow in America in Q1

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2018
... say, economic growth rates have significant implications for fiscal and monetary policies and by extension, capital expenditure and financial markets. It's more crucial now because of Donald Trump. Recall his statement back in December 2017, "So ...

Chief economist update: Capex and credit and the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2018
... inflation and reduced profits. This could help explain the lower than expected increase in Australian private new capital expenditure in the March quarter of this year (Trump officially declared "war" on March 1 when he announced that "sometime next ...

Big data's big retirement benefits

DARREN SNYDER, STEPHEN FAY  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... than its generic answers to core retirement questions such as "how much do I need", saying that the use of either expenditure data trends or public government data provided scope to perform micro-simulation and adjust forecast earning needs more accurately. ...

Amnesty granted to employers with unpaid SG

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2018
... ensure that the cap on tax-free retirement phase assets cannot be circumvented through the use of non-arm's length expenditure or certain strategies using limited recourse borrowing arrangements (LRBAs)," the Government said.

What the 2018 Budget means for you

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... well-versed outcome in 2019-20. Squeezing down the current deficit is that between 2017-18 and 2021-22, government expenditure is projected to jump 17% or $77 billion from $459.9 billion to $537.3 billion while receipts are projected to jump $109 billion ...

Budget big picture: Surplus on radar

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... Morrison, in his third Commonwealth Budget reports that government receipts rising 8.6% during 2017-18, compared to expenditure rising 4.7%, leaves Australia with an annual deficit of $18.2 billion and on its way to a modest $2.2 billion surplus by 2019-20. ...