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Chief economist update: The devil's in the headline US payrolls number details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
... or just eat, drink and be merry and watch Netflix 24/7 while at the same time receiving higher unemployment benefits from dear Uncle Sam, thank you very much. There's the cheque for US$1200 per person (plus US$500 per child) issued under the CARES ...

Chief economist update: A half-glass full look at inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2021
Inflation was the "word" over the week that was. Concerns over US inflation eased somewhat at the start of last week after US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) revealed disappointing labour market stats. The US economy added 266,000 jobs in April, well ...

Super funds need to get on board with crypto: Carnegie

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021
... Bitcoin, I understand why that's a rational strategy as well as an established strategy - HODL stands for hold on for dear life. This fund is for people who can not do that, who acknowledge that if the market blows up, they're going to get scared ...

Chief economist update: Fed fights back bond bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... fight against COVID-19. But we don't have to go so long and faraway for our very own Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). Our dear central bank has increased debt purchases in efforts to keep interest rates low. According to Reuters, the Australian central ...

Commonwealth Super awards mandate for new strategy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
... better risk-adjusted return, to meet the long-term funding requirements of their customers," Osmosis chief executive Ben Dear said. "Announcing this partnership with CSC further underscores our firm's investment philosophy and thesis, that economic ...

GSFM sizes up ETFs with Munro launch

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2020
The Sydney multi-boutique is dipping its toes into active ETFs, with the first being a long/short fund from Munro Global Partners. The Munro Global Growth Fund (Hedge Fund) started trading on the ASX today with the ticker MAET. The active ETF will invest ...

Chief economist update: No cheers as RBA hits inflation target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
Mission accomplished! This would have been the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) self-congratulatory exclamation after the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported that annual headline CPI inflation accelerated to 2.2% in the March quarter ...

Culture change must not be a fad: APRA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019
APRA chair Wayne Byres told Australia's banking lobby that changes to the sector's culture cannot disappear once the spotlight moves away. Speaking at the Australian Banking Association's national economic series in Sydney on Wednesday, Byres said APRA's ...

Chief economist update: The Budget surplus can wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2019
"Anything that could go wrong will go wrong." - Murphy's law. It seems like it for us, Australians all. The latest (although dated) GDP growth figures showed that domestic economic growth slowed to its slowest pace in a decade (in the midst of the ...

Chief economist update: BOJ exit last year, BOJ easing this year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2019
Japanese officials and investors must be wiping the sweats from their foreheads after the Cabinet Office released its latest National Accounts report and showed the country dodged a recession. Japanese GDP grew 0.3% in the December 2018 quarter following ...