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Chief economist update: The survey says...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018
With China in the centre of US president Donald Trump's protectionist crosshairs, China needs the result of latest surveys on its economy like a hole in the head...or so it seems. In early March, China's purchasing managers' indices surveyed by both ...

Labor's amended cash dividend refunds fall short: SMSFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2018
The Labor Party's attempt to protect age pensioners from its proposed excess dividend imputation credits reform still falls short, the SMSF Association says. Labor introduced the Pensioner Guarantee yesterday as a way to protect pensioners from abolishing ...

Chief economist update: Just a hiccup in a rising trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2018
Consumers may not be good at predicting Wall Street's direction but they sure do impact overall economic growth. While renewed market volatility continue to put Wall Street to task, Main Street is taking the goings-on in America - fiscal and monetary ...

Industry fund signs super code, slashes premiums

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
A $50 billion industry fund is the latest signatory to the Insurance in Superannuation Voluntary Code of Practice, announcing it will drop TPD insurance premiums by an average of 20% at the same time. Signing up to the code from March 31, Sunsuper believes ...

Chief economist update: The euro's doing Trump's work in the Eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
Who was the first to blink? Was it Trump? Or was it Xi? "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!" Given the financial markets' reaction, they don't care so long as the "lose-lose" situation of a trade war is averted. Still, this will continue to task ...

Kapstream creates new fund

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
Kapstream Capital will soon launch its new investment strategy, including a second fund to sit alongside the fixed income manager's flagship Absolute Return Income Fund. Kapstream director of investment strategy James Bloom told Financial Standard the ...

Chief economist update: It's not just the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
Trade war and an escalation of it was what every other financial market report pointed to as ground zero for the renewed equity market slump. Most equity markets from New York to Rio and old London town have now turned red this year to date, one would ...

Chief economist update: The trend is not our friend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018
Looking at the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) latest update on the country's labour market, one couldn't help but exclaim that it was a wonderful set of (seasonally adjusted) numbers. The economy added another 17,500 jobs in February following ...

Chief economist update: Dot tales

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
And so it has come to pass. The US Federal Reserve did what was widely expected of it - it raised the fed funds rate target by 25 basis points to 1.5%-1.75% following its 20-21 March FOMC meeting. One sentence in the FOMC statement provides the underlying ...

Former Provident Capital MD still banned but allowed procedural fairness

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
The Federal Court has upheld ASIC's five-year disqualification of the former managing director at Provident Capital but found the Administrative Appeals Tribunal denied the MD procedural fairness in its hearing. ASIC explained that on 20 February 2015 ...