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Chief economist update: The yen's on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
... continue. Japanese household consumption contributed 0.3 percentage points to growth in the December quarter and capital expenditure added 0.1 percentage points. These were sufficient to counteract zero contributions from government spending and net ...

Government passes BEAR reform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... in retail banking," COBA chief executive Michael Lawrence said. He added that it is critical to minimise regulatory expenditure on smaller banking institutions when promoting a more competitive banking market as such costs are ultimately passed on to ...

Chief economist update: The angel in the details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
The US economy had been expected to slow in the fourth quarter of 2017... but not this slow. The advance estimate of US GDP showed economic growth decelerated to a 2.6% annual rate in the December 2017 quarter from a two-and-a-half-year high of 3.2% ...

Companies must clarify purpose: Fink

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
The chief executive of the world's largest investment firm believes the world's public companies may lose their license to operate if they fail to engage with activist investors to ensure long-term value for shareholders. In his annual letter to chief ...

Government releases super tax measures for consultation

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 12 JAN 2018
... (TSB). The second, Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer explained, "ensures that non-arm's length expenditure is taken into account when determining whether the non-arm's length income (NALI) taxation rules apply to a transaction." ...

APRA unveils proposed RSE reform package

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2017
... efficiency of RSE's business operations - particularly investments, insurance benefits, scale, product features and fund expenditure, and how these areas will directly impact outcomes for members. In the wake of a booming superannuation sector, those ...

Un-Keynesian

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2017
... all indicators are pointing to the sky? That's so un-Keynesian. Just as Greece was required to tighten its fiscal expenditure when its economy was in recession (that sent it in direr straits), America is fiscally spending at a time when it doesn't need ...

Capex brings cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
... currently), and businesses' animal spirits weren't lifting. My database shows that, instead, actual private new capital expenditure (capex) continued to slow before registering outright negative year-on-year growth from the March quarter of 2013 to the ...

APRA delivers poor super fund ultimatum

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
... proposed revisions to the prudential framework, including changes to promote greater transparency, especially around expenditure, and implement member outcomes assessments for all funds," Rowell said. She also re-expressed her views when it comes to ...

Financial literacy the bridge for income protection gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2017
... premature death of a household breadwinner is not usually a recurring event. As covering income losses is not a repeated expenditure like other common financial obligations, people do not have the benefit of 'learning by doing', the report highlights. ...