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Chief economist update: The grass is paler on the China side

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2018
... reason to because it's presiding over an economy that has growth an annualised rate of 4.1% in the second quarter - the fastest pace in four years - with an unemployment rate of 4% - near 18-year lows and inflation that's inches away from target ...

Chief economist update: Boom in the USA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2018
... upwardly revised 2.2% (from 2%) expansion in the first quarter. While this is in line with market expectations, it's the fastest annualised quarterly growth rate since the third quarter of 2014 (4.9%). The year-on-year pace of expansion accelerated ...

VanEck adds two to Australian team

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
... 4.5% of Australia's total ETP market, managing $1.6 billion as at March, according to Rainmaker Research. It was the fastest growing of the 10 largest ETP managers, picking up $894 million in FUM - an increase of 126% in the 12 months to March.

Chief economist update: What goes around is starting to get around

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
... upward pressure on consumer prices is gaining momentum. Headline inflation accelerated to 2.9% in the year to June - the fastest since February 2012 - from 2.8% in the previous month. The annual growth in the core inflation measure sped up to 2.3% - ...

Chief economist update: Weak wages a puzzle, could become a problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018
... upward pressure on consumer prices is gaining momentum. Headline inflation accelerated to 2.9% in the year to June - the fastest since February 2012 - from 2.8% in the previous month. The annual growth in the core inflation measure sped up to 2.3% - ...

Queensland industry funds merge

HARRISON WORLEY AND JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
... years ago, AustSafe is the super fund for rural and regional Australia with more than 100,000 members. Sunsuper is the fastest growing fund in Australia with about 1.3 million members and $55 billion in funds under management. As such, the merger will ...

Chief economist update: US inflation hits target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2018
... favoured gauge - the core PCE price index - is now smack bang where the Fed wants it, rising by 2% in the year to May (the fastest since April 2012) from 1.8% in the previous month. The headline PCE price index is even higher, up 2.3% from 2% year-on-year ...

Chief economist update: ECB cannot be any clearer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
... growth expectations at 1.7% in 2019 and 2020. Still, excluding the fast growth in the economy in 2017, this is still the fastest since the March quarter of 2011. While the ECB kept policy unchanged in its June meeting, it laid down a clear roadmap of ...

Chief economist update: Another five minutes of sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018
... pushes the Australian economy ahead of the US (2.8%), the Eurozone (2.5%), the UK (1.2%) and Japan (1%). It's also the fastest growth rate since the June 2016 quarter (3.3%) when the domestic economy similarly outperformed its peers. To be sure ...

Life insurer early intervention a win: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
... insurers from funding medical treatments for mental health conditions. The health care system has to keep up with one of the fastest growing issues confronting many Australians and change is long overdue, Mu said. Recognising that certain constraints ...