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AMP establishes AMP Investments

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2022
... institutional and retail client. The AMP Investments team is made up of former AMP Capital multi-asset staff, including chief economist Shane Oliver, and external hires. These include head of portfolio management Stuart Eliot who joined in April from ...

Yellen forebodes stagflation risks

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2022
In Bonn, Germany, US secretary of the treasury Janet Yellen has called the global economic outlook challenging and uncertain; stagflation effects have depressed output and spending, she added. Yellen said the US understood when Russia invaded Ukraine ...

US inflation wavers near a 40-year high

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2022
... slumped 3% and the S&P500 1.6%. However, as market turmoil continues to take hold, T. Price Rowe chief international economist Nikolaj Schmidt has called for calm. "The current inflation surge rests on a few moving pieces but is mostly cyclical and central ...

Low wage growth a deliberate design feature: ACTU

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
An ACTU report has blasted the Coalition government for the consistent entrenchment of low wage growth. The Morrison missing in action on wages report shows that over the entire term of the Morrison government, real wages have fallen by 2.3%. This is ...

RBA weighs controversial pre-election rate rise

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2022
... rate news. As such, the other option the RBA has at its disposal is to keep the cash rate steady at 0.10%. HSBC chief economist Paul Bloxham stated in keeping cash rates steady, the RBA could effectively acknowledge the pick-up in inflation and repeat ...

Pain of commodity price increases to last: World Bank

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2022
... particularly from Russia and Ukraine. The increases will have lasting knock-on effects, World Bank Prospects Group chief economist John Baffes said. "The sharp rise in input prices, such as energy and fertilizers, could lead to a reduction in food production ...

Barrenjoey poaches several new hires

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2022
... focus on clients in the resource sector. Watson will be based in Perth. These hires follow the appointment of chief economist Jo Masters who joined in March. Masters joined from EY where she was chief economist for over three years. She also previously ...

Recession-style policy but no recession: Grattan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2022
... though there is a recession or a crisis, although there is no such situation. Speaking at the Financial Standard Chief Economist Forum in Sydney today, Wood said the Morrison government's fiscal policy strategy is very unusual. "The government is ...

Federal Budget delivers nothing on climate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2022
... budget was a "massive missed opportunity", according to Nicki Hutley, a climate councillor at the Climate Council and an economist and former Partner at Deloitte Access Economics. Hutley calculated that just 0.3% of total expenditure for 2021-2024 has ...

Excise tax, super top budget worries

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
... lot of that is likely to be dedicated to election promises. "It's hard to say what those measures will be," AMP chief economist Shane Oliver explains. "But I suspect there will be some goodies in the budget that they will roll out during the election ...