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Chief economist update: The PBOC stimulates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
Faced with slowing growth and above target inflation, what's a central bank to do? In the case of the People's Bank of China (PBOC), it's going for growth. In a surprise move, the Chinese central bank cut its seven-day reverse repo rate ...

Media Super winds up income investment option

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2019
The $6.2 billion superannuation fund Media Super has issued a notice to members notifying them that its Income Plus investment option will close effective 5 February 2019. The fund said the ongoing low bond yield environment has put performance of its ...

The AUD is key

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2019
I painted a picture of the latest domestic surveys and stats last week arguing that the RBA would need to cut interest rates some more to try and reverse the trend deterioration in the domestic economy. In it I briefly touched on the Australian dollar ...

Rapid pace of regulatory change to continue

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019
APRA's executive general manager Suzanne Smith said superannuation funds should expect the pace of regulatory change to continue into 2020 as she addressed the 2019 ASFA conference in Melbourne. Using her speech to reflect on the changes experienced ...

Chief economist update: How low will Lowe go?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019
RBA rate cut expectations strengthened after the release of worse-than-expected Australian labour market report. Duh! If financial markets were waiting for the jobs report to raise the odds of another Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) rate reduction ...

No pat on the back for high performers: APRA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019
... relevant benchmark in a specific area, the colour of its performance will be white, with yellow indicating underperformance and red indicating substantial underperformance. Rowell said the heat map doesn't provide a complete picture of trustee performance ...

Registration deadline extended: ASIC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2019
ASIC has told Australian financial services licensees that they will not be in breach of the law because their financial advisers were not able to register with ASIC-approved compliances schemes. The original deadline for registering was 1 January 2020. ...

Fee hike at government super fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2019
A government superannuation fund has increased its admin fees for the first time in nine years. Super SA, which provides superannuation to 210,000 public sector employees in South Australia, has informed members of some schemes that their admin fees ...

Chief economist update: Lower iron ore a boon to the Aussie budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2019
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. In the case of iron ore prices, it's a tale of two markets this year - a bull market in the first half; a bear market in the second half. Iron ore ...

TAL launching new product

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2019
Life insurer TAL is set to launch a new specialised product which it says is the first of its kind in Australia. The product is designed to protect people with diabetes and will include offers of life insurance premium reductions for customers who demonstrate ...