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Traded goods inflation

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017

... January and 1.3% in December. This is the fastest rate of increase since December 2011 led by rising prices for capital goods, industrial supplies and materials and agricultural exports.

... merchandise goods (4%) - a testament to the strong household consumption seen in the National Accounts report - and capital goods (3%) which suggest increased investment spending. And in case you haven't noticed, smaller as it may be... but Australia ...

Small caps taking over IPO market

ALEX BURKE | WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017

... million) These IPOs were distributed across the investments, retailing, utilities, automobiles, energy, software and capital goods sectors.

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2016

... and September's 0.2% gain. The year-on-year rate improved to an increase of 0.3% from 0% in September. Non-defense capital goods orders excluding aircrafts - an indicator of business investment - increased by 0.4% in the month of October, reversing September's ...

Do super funds hold AAA rating key?

DARREN SNYDER | WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2016

... the developed countries and that's reducing demand for capital. We've had a very big fall in the relative price of capital goods - this is part of the digital economy," Garnaut said. "The absolute level of savings in China is as large as the United States ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016

... 0.1% rise and August's 0.1% increase. The year-on-year rate improved to 0% from minus 0.7% in August. Non-defense capital goods orders excluding aircrafts - an indicator of business investment - declined by 1.2% in the month of September, negating the ...

Watermark makes two key hires

KERRIE SYDEE | MONDAY, 24 OCT 2016

... the role of portfolio manager and will work across all of Watermark's funds, bringing with him a specialisation in capital goods, transport and infrastructure. Felton held his role at Platinum Asset Management for 12 years and was part of its flagship ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016

... expected 1.1% pick-up. The rise in overall industrial output was driven by increases in durable consumer goods (4.9%), capital goods (2.6%), intermediate goods (2.0%) and energy (1.5%). Production of non-durable consumer goods dipped by 0.1%. China trade ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016

... imports rising by 42% and services debits up by 1%. Imports of Intermediate and other merchandise goods declined by3%, capital goods by 1% and consumption goods decreased by 0.2%. Australia AiG performance of construction The AiG/HIA performance of construction ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016

... volatile transportation component, orders were down 0.4% in August after growing by 1.1% in the previous month. Core capital goods orders growth slowed from 0.8% in July to 0.6% in August (down 3.1% over the year). China consumer sentiment The Westpac/MNI ...

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Brighter Super launches lifetime income product in accumulation phase

ELIZA BAVIN

The $38 billion super fund has teamed up with TAL to offer members a lifetime income product while still in the accumulation phase.

FinCap beefs up treasury capabilities

MATTHEW WAI

FinCap has welcomed a new member to help scale the firm's private markets managed accounts offering.

smartMonday tweaks fees, MySuper structure

MATTHEW WAI

The super fund is transforming its MySuper LifeCycle structure by shrinking nine options into four distinct categories, while making changes to its investment and administration fees

Former Berndale director jailed for $700k in misused funds

VINNY VUCAGO

Former Berndale Capital Securities director Stavro D'Amore has been sentenced to almost four years' imprisonment after admitting to dishonestly misusing nearly $700,000 of company funds and authorising false statements to ASIC.

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