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Super assets hit $2.3 trillion

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
... method over pensions (47.6%), whereby $33.6 billion was made. In terms of asset allocation and performance during the March quarter, total assets increased by 2.4% to $1.5 trillion, with half (50.2%) invested in equities, followed by fixed income (20.6%) ...

Fed trumps Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
... growth..." Yes, Trump could provide that extra oomph but the FOMC's base case should be enough. The FOMC considered the March quarter slowdown in GDP growth and inflation likely reflected "transitory factors" and members "continued to expect that, with ...

Revenue boost for life insurers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
... ($79m). Individual disability income insurance however, made a loss of $427 million during the year. During the March quarter, insurers' policy revenue declined significantly from $4.5 billion in December 2016 to $2.6 billion.

A one-handed clap for ScoMo's Budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2017
... preventing consumers lifting their expenditures. Total wages growth remained at an all-time low 1.9% in the year to the March quarter - the same as the December quarter - with private sector wages increasing by 1.8% (unchanged from the December quarter) ...

SMSFs in rebalancing flurry

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2017
Benefit payments for self-managed superannuation fund members jumped by 71% in the March quarter, indicating a last-ditch effort to re-adjust balances head of the July 1 legislative changes to super. SuperConcepts' survey of 2750 SMSFs shows the average ...

Beneficiaries unfamiliar with death benefits

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2017
... is particularly true when it comes to death benefits, according to the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal. In the March quarter, the distribution of deceased members' death benefits (21.5%) was the biggest source of complaints for the SCT, followed by ...

Expanding expansion in manufacturing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2017
... still up a strong 11.2%. No rate hike too. The sharp pick-up in the annual rate of headline inflation to 2.1% in the March quarter from 1.5% in the previous one (inside the RBA's 2%-3% target band) may have lifted the odds for a rate hike. But futures ...

100 days of Trump (and counting)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
... in household spending growth - that which makes up around 70% of national output -- to 0.3% (annualised) in the March quarter from 3.5% in the previous quarter. This is at odds with buoyant consumer sentiment surveys and underscores the Bureau of Economic ...

The CPI report that confirms all biases

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
... future (whenever that may be) would point out that the annual headline inflation rate accelerated to 2.1% in the March quarter from 1.5% in the previous three-month period. This is now inside the RBA's 2%-3% target band, the highest reading in 10 quarters ...

China's off to a good 2017 start

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2017
... China's economy growth accelerated in the first three months of 2017. Chinese GDP expanded by 6.9% in the year to the March quarter, a step up from the December 2016 quarter's 6.8% growth rate and 6.7% each in the previous three quarters of the same ...