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Industry fund names new group insurer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020
... associated with work ever again'. The change in insurer comes shortly after ACSRF increased premiums for members in August of this year. At the time, the fund said it was attempting to manage the tension between increased claims and less insured members ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 cuts capex

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020
... Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to cut the official cash rate from 2.0% to 1.75% in April and then again to 1.5% in August of the same year. Eighteen months on -- the time back in August 2014 when then RBA governor Glenn Stevens told the House of Representatives ...

Radio host adviser revealed as alleged fraudster

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019
... Springer is the second investment adviser turned radio host to be revealed as a fraud by the SEC in recent times. In August of this year former financial adviser Dawn Bennett was sentenced to 20 years in prison for running a $30 million Ponzi scheme. ...

RI Advice faces ASIC action

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2019
... representative of RI Advice in May 2013 and sat a competency and knowledge test two months later which he failed. In August of that year RI Advice received a complaint about Doyle. Still, RI Advice did not apply any enhanced supervision of Doyle, failing ...

Chief economist update: Rate hike hawks in RBA dove's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
... impatient. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) lifted interest rates four times from 2.5% in March 2014 to 3.5% by August of the same the same year. No one can fault the RBNZ, annual GDP growth accelerated from 1.7% in the March 2014 quarter to 3.2% ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2016
... same period - equal to July's growth but less than the 2.0% expected. Household loans increased by 1.8% in the year to August of 2016 (equal to the previous month's growth rate) and loans to non-financial corporations grew by 1.9% (same as July's rate) ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... went up 5.8% year-on-year in June of 2016, accelerating for the third straight month and reaching the highest since August of 2014, reports Trading Economics. The figures were slightly above market expectations of 5.7 percent, driven by food costs. India ...

Time to be fearful?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013
... gauge". The VIX index closed at a reading of 18.6 overnight. Ho-hum. That isn't fear! Fear was the reading of 48 back in August of 2011. Panic was the reading of 80.86 in November of 2008. What about the bond market? The Bank of America Merrill Lynch ...

The great unwind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... October 2008 or even the spike to a 48 something reading during the European sovereign debt crisis induced fear moment in August of 2011. There'll be more volatility and losses in store for the bond market should the Fed carry out its tapering threat. ...

Off the cliff and into the ceiling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... better believe it. For we've been here before. Remember autumn 2011? The S&P 500 index dropped by 17.3% from July to August of that year due to the impasse on the budget ceiling and Standard & Poor's took away one A from America's AAA credit rating. ...