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Frontier changes strategy, shakes up team

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2022
... capital markets and asset allocation team. Mukherjee joins from Moody's Analytics where she was assistant director and economist covering the APAC region. In other changes, Phil Naylor will take on the role head of capital markets and asset allocation ...

HESTA hires high profile economist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2022
HESTA has appointed high profile economist Annette Beacher as an investment manager and market strategist. Beacher has spent two decades as a market economist for international investment banks, working in Australia and Singapore. Most recently, she ...

ETF flows up despite volatility: Vanguard

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2022
... exporter for this but said global factors and rising inflation would still have an impact. Vanguard Asia Pacific senior economist Alexis Gray added: "The chances of a recession are lower in Australia than other developed economies because as a commodities ...

RBA raises interest rates again

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2022
... expect the board to take further steps to normalise monetary conditions in Australia over the months ahead. UBS chief economist George Tharenou said the interest rate rise came as expected and offered no change to its 50 basis point August guidance and ...

Stagflation: What should we expect?

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022
... views on the current stagflationary environment. "Inflation's certainly here to stay in the near term," QIC chief economist Matthew Peter said. "The central banks aren't going to get a lot of signal from prices for inflation to alter their path. ...

Fair Work Commission raises minimum wage 5.2%

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2022
... prices and sharp increases in the cost of new dwellings." On today's move by the Fair Work Commission, AMP senior economist Diana Mousina said: "The fall in real wages which is currently at its lowest level could be boosted by the big lift in the ...

OECD projects sharp growth deceleration

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2022
... of aggression, which is causing lower real incomes, lower growth and fewer job opportunities worldwide." OECD chief economist Laurence Boone added: "The Outlook is sobering and the world is already paying the price for Russia's aggression. The choices ...

Banks flag imminent consecutive double rate rises

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2022
Commonwealth Bank and Westpac economists have predicted the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to bump up official rates to 1.35% when it next meets in July; NAB and ANZ believe there will be another double hike in the next two months. Quickly following ...

Reserve Bank shocks with hawkish 50bp increase

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2022
... index increased by 5.1%, while the wage price index increased by 2.4%," stated a Finder survey. Moody's Analytics economist Harry Murphy Cruise said that inflation will continue to outpace wage growth, but only in the short term. "In the short term ...

Reserve Bank tipped to hike rates again

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2022
Economists have had their say about tomorrow's Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) decision, the vast majority anticipate the central bank to jack up cash rates. A Finder survey has said that 86% of its expert panelists believe the cash rate will change ...