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University students to run hedge fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
... student cycle turnover. ASAM will hold 15-20 positions filtered through a scale of 0-10. The performance goal is 4% above CPI. The fund will aim to build up $50,000 to $100,000 ideally, Haifer said. "The ESG focus is something students really wanted ...

Industry fund recognised for data security expertise

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2018
... control over prices for statutory land registry services throughout the 40-year term, and price increases will be capped at CPI for non-statutory services provided by VLRS. The state will also retain ownership of essential land services and divisions ...

Chief economist update: Turkey's roasted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
... 8) and the liquidity window lending rate to 20.75% on the same day. Still, inflation continues to rampage higher. Headline CPI inflation accelerated to 15.9% in July from 10.4% at the start of the year, core inflation sped up to 15.1% from 12.2%. This ...

Chief economist update: Betting on down rather than up?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2018
... inflation measure accelerating to 1.1% from 0.9% in the March quarter. The August Monetary Policy Statement forecasts the headline CPI inflation rate to ease to 1.4% in the September quarter of this year and won't reach the midpoint of its 1%-3% ...

Chief economist update: Not before we get a pay rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
... choice given the erosion of their real wages (this has dropped to zero - wages growth of 2.1% (March quarter) and headline CPI inflation of 2.1% (June quarter)). Not only this, latest ABS data show that growth in household disposable income halved to ...

Chief economist update: At the core-core of it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2018
... in Japan are still nowhere near that - whatever measure of inflation is used. Statistics Japan data show that the headline CPI inflation rate increased by 0.7% in June from 0.6% in the previous month, the core inflation rate (excluding fresh food) did ...

Chief economist update: ECB on track for exit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2018
... stabilised at levels that are above historical averages." Draghi remains uncertain on inflation though, noting that while headline CPI rose to 2% in June from 1.9% in the previous month, core inflation - that which exclude food and oil prices - remain ...

Chief economist update: Inflation genie still inside the box

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2018
... that leads to lower inflation as businesses offer discounts to maintain revenues, that leads to low wage growth (by virtue of CPI indexation) that leads to limited consumer spending that...means this current state of affairs in the domestic economy could ...

Chief economist update: No sweat says BOC on Trump tariffs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2018
... turn, should buoy business investment. This is one of the reasons why it's not taking any chances on inflation - headline CPI accelerated to 2.5% in the year to June from 2.2% in the previous month and the bank expects it to "edge up further to about ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
... growth less inflation. Real wages fell by 0.2% in June - annual growth in average hourly earnings of 2.7% in June less headline CPI inflation of 2.9% (workers buy food and petrol), auguring a negative indication for consumer spending. On the flipside ...