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OECD tells RBA to take a hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
... - 5.5% in 2017, 5.5% in 2018 and 5.25% in 2019. Case for a rate hike? The headlines think so: "Reserve Bank to hike cash rate, OECD says" (The Sydney Morning Herald); "OECD says Australian economy ready for higher RBA rates" (The Australian Financial ...

Australian business conditions gone gangbusters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2017
... confidence remains a bit of a puzzle." This certainly doesn't fit with the current record low level of the official cash rate (1.5%) nor the current neutral stance in RBA monetary policy. The last time business conditions were nearly this lovely (+20 ...

Time to start factoring in an RBA rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017
... about the ANZ and NAB's call for the RBA to remove at least the "emergency accommodation" that brought the official cash rate to a record low of 1.5%. If the recent trend in Australian consumer spending - or in this case, not spending - continues, we ...

A matter of assumptions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2017
... guessing... and so are the "experts''. The ANZ and the NAB guess that the Australian central bank would lift the official cash rate by 25 basis points twice by the end of 2018, taking the current rate of 1.5% to 2%. These are based on their view that ...

Fed does the thinkable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2017
... conditions." Based on the Taylor Rule and using the Fed's 2018 forecasts for growth (2.1%), inflation (1.9%) and the neutral cash rate (2.75%), my calculations show that the fed funds rate should be at 2.75% next year. The Fed's uncertainty over inflation ...

Lower returns but higher balances for SMSFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
... for longer'. McBirnie said this is reflective of the Reserve Bank of Australia noting in July that the neutral nominal cash rate is now 3.5% rather than 5% previously. "Even so, SMSF households are still better placed than most sectors of the community ...

Westpac chair joins boutique manager board

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
... and will provide investors an exposure to a portfolio of more than 50 corporate loans targeting a return of the RBA cash rate plus 3.25% per annum net of fees. MCP manages wholesale funds with assets of more than $2 billion.

AZ Sestante grows fund list

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... its Australian footprint with the launch of Sestante Global Macro Fund. The Global Macro Fund aims to outperform the cash rate before fees and keeps volatility less than 4%; it has a low correlation to the financial markets over a rolling one-year period. ...

Boring is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
... year stint as head honcho of the Australian central bank is that Mr. Lowe did nothing - that is, he kept the official cash rate where he found it, at a record low 1.5%...to this day. In a word, boring. But boring is good, for unlike the extreme volatility ...

Australian dollar poses problem for RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
... painted by RBA governor Philip Lowe's statement after the bank's board meeting on 1 August (where it kept the official cash rate unchanged at 1.5%). But despite the RBA's optimistic outlook, the domestic equity market appears to be going nowhere. This ...

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Sequoia gives InterPrac sale a second shot

ELIZA BAVIN  |   11:34AM
Sequoia is trying its hand at selling InterPrac Financial Planning again after its first sale attempt to Conquest Investment Management was left in the air.

American Century names APAC managing director

ELIZA BAVIN  |   11:32AM
The new managing director will be based in Sydney and joins American Century from Dimensional Fund Advisors.

CSC tests waters on digital assets with Northern Trust

MATTHEW WAI  |   10:49AM
Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation, the super fund for public servants and the defence force, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Northern Trust to advance digital investment infrastructure across institutional markets.

Vanguard adds floating rate ETF, managed fund to product suite

MATTHEW WAI  |   10:41AM
Vanguard has launched an Australian floating rate bond index strategy, available through both an ETF and a managed fund format.

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