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As clear as it gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2017
... still on alert. "My FOMC colleagues and I will therefore need to continue to reassess and revise our assessments of the neutral rate in response to incoming data and adjust monetary policy accordingly." The Fed's forward guidance couldn't get any clearer ...

A matter of assumptions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2017
... Using the Taylor Rule formula - estimations of what the official cash rate should be given the RBA's assumptions for the neutral cash rate, the output gap and inflation deviation from target - shows the cash rate should be at 2.125% by 2018. The interest ...

Fed does the thinkable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2017
... economic conditions." Based on the Taylor Rule and using the Fed's 2018 forecasts for growth (2.1%), inflation (1.9%) and the neutral cash rate (2.75%), my calculations show that the fed funds rate should be at 2.75% next year. The Fed's uncertainty ...

Lower returns but higher balances for SMSFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
... remaining 'lower for longer'. McBirnie said this is reflective of the Reserve Bank of Australia noting in July that the neutral nominal cash rate is now 3.5% rather than 5% previously. "Even so, SMSF households are still better placed than most sectors ...

Alternatives managers celebrated at annual event

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2017
... taking out the award for Best Long Short Equity Fund and Macquarie's Pure Alpha Fund being recognised as the Best Market Neutral Fund. Other winners on the night include the Tribeca Global Natural Resources Fund which was named Best Emerging Manager ...

Beware creative debt packaging: Robeco

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2017
... funds about fixed income strategies and insights, said Australia from a top-down debt sustainability perspective sits at 'neutral.' The household sector being quite leveraged at 125%, and well above the level of Spain and Ireland before the financial ...

APRA launches inquiry into CBA

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 28 AUG 2017
... levels of public trust, confidence and transparency in the banking industry, with 70% placing their level of trust at neutral or low.

New Zealand advice industry to be overhauled

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
... the FMC Act regime. Unlike the FA Act, the new Bill enables the provision of more types of advice by being technology-neutral, lifting the existing restrictions around advice needing to be provided by a human adviser. In turn, this allows for the provision ...

Not showing: inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... snuffed hawkish interpretations of the minutes of the 4 July RBA meeting - particularly, the minutes' reference to a 3.5% neutral cash rate - reversing the Australian dollar's upward run. "...the current (nominal) cash rate setting of 11/2% today is ...

Jump goes the Aussie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2017
... indicate some probability of an increase in the cash rate by mid 2018." "Members discussed the Bank's work estimating the neutral real interest rate for Australia. The various estimates suggested that the rate had been broadly stable until around 2007 ...