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Chief economist update: Better than all the rest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... not all Australians, would have had this Tina Turner classic playing in their heads listening to Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Philip Lowe's remarks before the Senate Select Committee on COVID-19. Straight from the governor's mouth ...

APRA quashes super liquidity concerns

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... funds. APRA chair Wayne Byres said the issue was raised at the Council of Financial Regulators - which includes ASIC and the RBA - in the "early days" of the pandemic, when forecasts around the use of the ERS were still varied. "You had the Treasury ...

Banks urged to step up

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... be maintained during a once in a century shock. These buffers have been built up to be used in an event such as this." The RBA governor said a reduction in a capital buffer ratios would be entirely appropriate as lenders "support customers" during the ...

Australia approaches fiscal cliff: UBS

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2020
... still impending, UBS expects economic data to further weaken over the coming months - though, perhaps not as badly as the RBA is predicting. "Given this uncertain outlook, we still see household savings surging to ~10% in coming quarters," UBS said. ...

Industry funds pulled back to the pack

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2020
... than first thought. "Portfolio managers [are] finding it hard to sell their fixed interest assets to any buyer other than the RBA," Bardsley said. He said the RBA's quantitative easing is not "creating the volumes that institutional fund managers need" ...

New fund listing cancelled

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... opportunities across geography, maturity, industry and loan term," the company said. The fund is targeting a return of 4% pa above the RBA cash rate, net of fees and costs, and will be paid monthly. The company said it is targeting a portfolio composition ...

Investors pile into companies on life support

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... opportunity," he said. "The other reason I believe markets have 'stabilised' and rallied is the cushioning effect of the RBA cutting rates and injecting funds in the market with targeted programs as well as the Federal Government's JobKeeper ...

Chief economist update: The outlook for Australia, according to COVID-19

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... remains low, the outcomes would be even more challenging than those in the baseline scenario." That, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Philip Lowe's statement - released after the Australian central bank's May 5 meeting (where it kept ...

Aussie analysts share COVID-19 investment tips

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... when economies get back to work," he said. The local market hasn't rebounded as much as its global counterparts as the RBA has not done as much as the US Federal Reserve to bolster asset prices, he said, but our health and fiscal responses have so ...

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 ...