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Chief economist update: A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
... less against all major currencies: down 3.5% against the US$; down 4.1% on the euro; down 6.3% against the yen; down 5.2% versus the pound; down 6% vis-a-vis the renminbi; and, down 4.3% on the trade weighted index. The Australian dollar's depreciation ...

Chief economist update: Japan's other war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... volatility in the financial markets is prompting safe-haven purchases of the Japanese yen. The yen has appreciated by 6.1% versus the greenback this year to date (after recording a 3.1% increase in 2017). It goes without saying that the Japanese currency's ...

Chief economist update: Caught in the crossfire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... during the Asian financial crisis of 1997/1998 and the global financial crisis of 2007/2008. The A$ has depreciated by 1.8% versus the US dollar in the first quarter of this year and by 4.0% on the trade weighted index (TWI). And if this still isn't ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
... stronger euro area fundamentals. So this is a development we need to monitor closely." The euro has appreciated another 3.6% versus the greenback this year, on top of its 13.8% gain in 2017. Never mind Trump, this alone calls for a currency war for as ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
... 500's expensive valuation wherein which its current prospective P/E ratio remains above the historical average - 16.1 times versus 14.4. Sure, other world equity markets may still be fairly or undervalued, but we all know what happens when the US sneezes. ...

Super industry wants tougher insurance code

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
... Fahy is pleased with the code's progress but is cognisant of polarising feedback: 'It's not as far as we'd like it to go,' versus, 'It's achieved more than what we've hoped for.' "What we don't want to happen is for the government to step in after 15 ...

REITs the saving grace on SPIVA scorecard

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... funds underperformed their respective benchmarks across most categories in 2017, according to the S&P Dow Jones Indices Versus Active Fuds (SPIVA) Australia scorecard. S&P evaluated returns from 109 Australian bond funds, 378 international equity funds ...

Time to move beyond "cheap and generic" retirement products: Milliman

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... $43,675. "This is a significant difference even when accounting for the different time periods of the underlying data (2015 versus 2017)," Gebler wrote. The HILDA data revealed other consistencies, given that it's based on people self-reporting their ...

Chief economist update: The yen's on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
... intervention. The yen isn't rising or falling abruptly". That might be the case last year, when the yen appreciated by just 3.1% versus the US dollar. So far this year (to 15 February), it has already risen another 5.7% against the greenback to ¥106.86 ...

FASEA accelerates degree equivalency agenda

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2018
... policy. There is an academic policy enforced by individual institutions about how long a qualification might be alive for versus how quickly it becomes out-of-date. These are not hard and fast rules, and they are not regulatory policy," he stated. FASEA ...