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Chief economist update: COVID-19 could hit Australia with triple whammy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
... engineering products, including office and telecommunication equipment and parts, computers, household appliances and furniture, among others. Australian wholesalers and retailers of these products would have to source their goods elsewhere (and perhaps ...

Industry fund looks within for co-chair

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2020
... been elevated to co-chair. Mike Radda is the new co-chair of First Super, the fund for the timber, pulp and paper, and furniture and joinery industries,. Radda's promotion was confirmed on January 1, when he took over the role from previous co-chair ...

Chief economist update: Aussie Black Friday spend will end Saturday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
... Black Friday sales, both in areas such as electrical goods and online sales, but also in areas such as clothing and furniture... While seasonal adjustment removes regular seasonal patterns associated with Black Friday based on prior results, the strong ...

Chief economist update: RBA cuts official cash rate to 0.75%

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
... a time, when we lowered interest rates, people would run off to the bank to borrow to kind of go on a holiday or buy furniture or kind of do some spending, they don't do that anymore... When we lower interest rates, they are more likely go to the ...

Chief economist update: The rate cut Australia has to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... large multiplier effect on the economy. It creates jobs in construction and other ancillary industries - legal, banking, furniture and white goods retailing, landscaping, etc. A reversal or even just a stoppage of the rising trend decline would help ...

Industry fund appoints board director

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
... sat on Timber Industry Superannuation Scheme's board from 1992 until 2008 when the fund merged with First Super and Furniture Industry Retirement and Superannuation Trust to form a $1.5 billion super fund servicing members in the timber, pulp, paper ...

Chief economist update: Cash rate should be 1%

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... Summit yesterday that "the "wealth effect" on consumer spending from falling house prices will be limited to cars and furniture" that is "unlikely to derail our economic expansion..." No Philip. The property market's large multiplier effect on the ...

Rewards program to boost super savings

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018
... earn money from what has already been spent on everyday items like groceries, petrol and bigger ticket items such as furniture and airfares, he said. "We hope SUPERSUPER will make a meaningful difference to the lives of our members. It is designed to ...

Chief economist update: Back to the shops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... reported that eight of the 13 major retail categories reported increases in the month of March: These include: autos (2%); furniture & home furniture stores (0.7%); electronics & appliance stores (0.5%); food & beverage stores (0.2%); health & personal ...

Frontier appoints new director

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... First Super board of trustees and a member of First Super's investment committee. He has also had multiple roles in the furniture industry, including chief executive of the Furnishing Industry Association of Australia, Interlink Commercial Furniture ...