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Chief economist: What JobKeeper cliff?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2021
"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." This quote from Danish physicist and Nobel Prize in physics winner Niels Bohr has been proven time after time but more recently in the Australian Federal Treasury's prediction ...

Chief economist: The wages of slow wages growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2021
... rate of growth (1.5%) since the commencement of the series" from 1.6% in the December 2000 quarter. The Reserve Bank of Australia anticipated this in its April missive, saying: "...wage and price pressures are subdued and are expected to remain so for ...

Key Treasury initiatives outlined

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... pre-emptively identify and manage risks, or intervene in a FMI failure crisis. Under the reforms, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will be able to manage a failure at a clearing and settlement facility. There will also be a facility for the RBA to ...

OPINION: Super for housing was the wrong policy fight

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... save for their first home. But with interest rates at 6000-year lows and - based on comments from the Reserve Bank of Australia - likely to stay that way, and home prices exploding through the stratosphere so rapidly, the FHSS scheme has no point. And ...

Chief economist update: A date with the RBA in July

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2021
The Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) May the fourth Board meeting would have been a ho-hum event had it not been for the month of July. As expected, the RBA left monetary policy settings unchanged - "including the targets of 10 basis points for ...

Chief economist update: Low for longer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021
Latest inflation figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) underscore both the Reserve Bank of Australia's prescience and governor Philip Lowe's expectation that the official cash rate will remain low until at least 2024. ...

Macquarie-linked fund manager shutters

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 APR 2021
... to Morningstar data, the four-year-old strategy has consistently underperformed its benchmark of the Reserve Bank of Australia cash rate, returning -5.42% per annum over one year and -8.14% p.a. over three years. IPM chair Lars Ericsson said: "The investment ...

Super fund liquidity could be better: RBA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2021
... well, funds should consider the extent to which they rely on certain asset classes for liquidity, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has said. In its Financial Stability Report for April, the RBA praised super funds' management of liquidity pressures ...

FASEA chair to remain

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
... first appointed as chair of FASEA following its establishment in 2017 and is currently a director of the Reserve Bank of Australia's Payments System Board and Australian Foundation Investment Company. She is also chair of Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance ...

Chief economist update: RBA promises support over the next three years

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2021
"Come on, Barbie, let's go party"... until 2024. In Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) parlance: "The board is committed to maintaining highly supportive monetary conditions until its goals are achieved. The board will not increase the cash rate until ...