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Dovish Fed, hawkish BOC

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2017
Janet's in the house. US Fed Chair Janet Yellen's much-awaited testimony did not differ greatly from what was already divulged in the FOMC statement released on 14 June - when the Fed raised the fed funds rate by 25 basis points to 1%-1.25%. In her ...

Business conditions return to pre-GFC levels

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2017
"We continue to be pleasantly surprised by just how upbeat the business sector is, given the context of a fairly beleaguered household sector that has been weighed down by limited wages growth and record levels of debt." These are the printed words ...

Low inflation exporter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
Recall those days when China was accused of exporting deflation to the rest of the world? The days when dirt cheap "Made in China" products were flooding the rest of the world (they still are). It was so prevalent that in January 2004, the US Federal ...

Government closes super loophole

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
A loophole which allowed some superannuants to reduce taxation obligations on their superannuation income stream by electing to treat income as a series of lump sum payments has been closed by the Federal Government. The closure, announced on 3 May  ...

Economics 101 is dead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
... increase to the jobs numbers. Although the unemployment rate ticked higher to 4.4% from the 16-year low of 4.3% recorded in May - a function of the increase in the participation rate from 62.7% to 62.8% in June - it's still below the NAIRU (non-accelerating ...

AustralianSuper posts annual investment results

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
Australia's largest superannuation fund, with more than $120 billion under management, has returned double digit returns for balanced account members. After taxes and fees, the investment option returned 12.44% for the 2016-17 financial year. According ...

Hawkish central banks? Not the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
The release of the minutes of the Fed's and the ECB's June meetings have brought back financial market trepidation - sparked by last week's hawkish comments from central bank heads of the US, the Eurozone and the UK - that the end of cheap money is ...

SMSF software demand surges

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2017
Super reforms have helped propel the demand for self-managed super fund software in the last financial year, according to Class Super. Class' SMSF market share surged to 24% from 19% year-on-year, hitting a record high of 140,000 client accounts in ...

Good goings-on in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2017
... gentle but consistent increase China's foreign exchange reserves - up for the fourth straight month to US$3.05 trillion in May - the Chinese currency and the stock market. The onshore yuan exchange rate to the US dollar has appreciated by 2.2% this year ...

Super trustees on notice over fund disclosure

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
Fifteen per cent of superannuation trustees needed improvement in the disclosure of information on super fund websites according to Australia's corporate regulator. ASIC recently wrote to 21 superannuation trustees who failed to meet "Transparency Information" ...