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Australia Day honours recognise industry stalwarts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... other roles. Former Franklin Templeton Investments Australia managing director Maria Wilton was also among AM list. The Governor-General acknowledged her business and finance sector experience as well as service to the community. Wilton is currently ...

Former AFL club president joins super fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
... Club president will now chair the board of a $28 billion superannuation fund. Greg Boulton has been appointed by the Governor of South Australia as presiding member (chair) of Super SA. He has been appointed for a period of one year, replacing Annette ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... added another month to the length of time it has kept interest rates unchanged at 1.5% since August 2016 - and RBA deputy governor Guy Debelle's hinting a down move on interest rates. In his address to the Australian Business Economists Annual Dinner ...

Industry Super Australia chair steps down

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... with the US was integral to the sector's story and one of its largest milestones in past years. "In Indiana, its former governor Mike Pence oversaw the takeover of the Indiana toll road through a consortium of IFM Investors. This meant that last year ...

Chief economist update: BOE waiting on Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
... (BOE) Monetary Policy Council (MPC) unanimously voted to raise the Bank Rate by 25 bps to 0.75% on the 2nd of August, BOE governor Mark Carney was quoted as saying, "The mistake is to always wait, wait, wait until you have perfect certainty" before acting ...

Chief economist update: Australia's low(er)-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2018
Will the next move in the official cash rate, as Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Philip Lowe put it, likely "be up, rather than down"? To answer this, we have to look at the RBA's mandate of full employment and meeting an "agreed medium-term ...

Chief economist update: China's slowing fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
... powers-that-be are coming out of with words of comfort. Here's Bloomberg's list: "People's Bank of China Governor Yi Gang said in a statement on the central bank's website that it is studying measures to ease companies' financing ...

RBNZ on ice into 2020

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... Zealand (RBNZ) kept the official cash rate unchanged at 1.75% -- where it had been since November 2016. Not only that, RBNZ governor Adrian Orr said in his statement that the OCR would remain at this level through 2019 and into 2020. And from there ...

Government establishes aged care Royal Commission

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
... trusted and were reliant on, such as a relative or friend. Yesterday Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he will ask the Governor General to establish a Royal Commission into the aged care sector. Highlighting concerns with the quality and safety of aged ...

The BOE's got no problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2018
... England's (BOE) Monetary Policy Council (MPC) unanimously voted to raise the Bank Rate by 25 bps to 0.75% on August 2, BOE governor Mark Carney was quoted as saying: "The mistake is to always wait, wait, wait until you have perfect certainty," before ...