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Magellan promises better investment performance

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2022
After a turbulent six months, Magellan Financial Group acknowledged it needs to improve its investment performance. Releasing its half-year results this morning, Magellan interim chief executive Kirsten Morton assured investors that the "financial health ...

Proposed reforms could simplify advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2021
... Corporations Act 2001 should be simplified and rationalised in the first of four reports, Financial Services Legislation: Interim Report A. At a high level, the ALRC wants to tackle six problems: incomplete understandings of legislative complexity; complex ...

Chief economist update: Bank of Canada walks the talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021
... normal activities. This optimism is collectively embodied by upward revisions in the 'OECD Economic Outlook, Interim Report March 2021' - "Global GDP growth is now projected to be 5.6% this year, an upward revision of more than 1 percentage point ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2021
... 3.0% predicted in October 2020. This is in line with the OECD's 'Economic Outlook' March 2020 quarter interim report that upgraded Australia's 2021 GDP growth forecast by 1.3 percentage points to 4.5%. But like most other world central ...

Chief economist update: Australia's virtuous cycle keeps on turning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2021
... slowly been returning to pre-pandemic normal. So much so, that in its 'Economic Outlook' March 2020 quarter interim report, the OECD upgraded Australia's 2021 GDP growth forecast by 1.3 percentage points to 4.5%. With the Reserve Bank of ...

Chief economist update: Confidence contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
... rebounded stronger relative to its peer, later confirmed by the OECD 'Economic Outlook' March 2020 quarter interim report. Sure, US GDP growth received the biggest upgrade from the OECD - 3.3 percentage points to 6.5% this year - but this owes ...

Chief economist update: OECD sees stronger growth ahead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
... outlook since the fourth quarter of last year. The OECD's latest 'Economic Outlook' March 2021 quarter interim report provides an overview of how the world's economic fortune is changing... of the stronger. "Prospects have improved over ...

Chief economist update: Middle Kingdom on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... market expectations for a 5.2% print but it affirms the OECD's statement in its September 2020 Economic Outlook Interim Report that, "All G20 countries with the exception of China will have suffered recession in 2020" and backed by the IMF's ...

Chief economist update: Pandemic, what pandemic?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... the recession that has struck most nations around the world. As the OECD's September 2020 Economic Outlook Interim Report puts it: "All G20 countries with the exception of China will have suffered recession in 2020." Chinese GDP grew by 3.2% in the ...

Chief economist update: Australia's third arrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... pandemic-induced global recession and expected to expand by 1.8% this year and by 8.0% in 2021 (OECD Economic Outlook, Interim Report September 2020), it'll go shopping for more of our exports, not only goods but also services - when Australia re-opens ...