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Charter Hall grows portfolio by $800m

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... government lease thematic that Charter Hall has pursued for many years which, in the current environment of low interest rates and the focus on secure and growing income streams, provides attractive risk adjusted returns to both our listed and unlisted ...

OPINION: Super for housing was the wrong policy fight

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... the administrative infrastructure of their superannuation fund to help them save for their first home. But with interest rates at 6000-year lows and - based on comments from the Reserve Bank of Australia - likely to stay that way, and home prices exploding ...

Chief economist update: Bad news is good news is back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
... Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, she was quick to walk back her talk at the "Future Economic Summit" suggesting that interest rates may need to rise to avoid overheating due to fiscal stimulus. Yellen explained that she did not predict nor recommend ...

Research aims to solve cash conundrum

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
With record-low interest rates set to stay in place for some time, Allianz Retire+ has released new research looking at how best to solve the cash conundrum. Term deposit rates have fallen 96% since the Global Financial Crisis high of 8.25% and now ...

Farmland value grows in all states

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
... hectares of land with a value of approximately $10 billion. Rural Bank chief executive Alexandra Gartmann said low interest rates, consistent commodity prices, exceptional seasonal conditions through 2020 and farmers with capital and an incentive to ...

Chief economist update: Japan's elusive virtuous cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
... core - has gone nowhere near the BOJ's 2% target despite introducing QQE with Yield Curve Control and Negative Interest Rates in 2016. But I digress. While the BOJ upgraded its GDP growth forecasts in its April 2021 Outlook report - 4.0% in 2021 ...

Chief economist update: A date with the RBA in July

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2021
... of full employment and inflation. The Board places a high priority on a return to full employment." And as for interest rates: "It will not increase the cash rate until actual inflation is sustainably within the 2-3% target range. For this to occur ...

Westpac to face court over insider trading

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2021
... in one transaction with a notional value of $11.93 billion; "This effectively enabled the conversion of variable interest rates for the debt funding to a fixed rate, being the price of the swap transaction." "ASIC alleges that Westpac's trading occurred ...

Chief economist update: The Fed and Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
... securities] while at the same time repeating his expectation that the US central bank will have to start raising interest rates as soon as next year. The strengthening momentum in the US economy backs up Kaplan's rationale. The thing is, if the US ...

Chief economist update: Not yet time to make a change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
... you've found, something going on." That "something" is the sharp improvement in economic activity underpinned by low interest rates, trillions of dollars of government support to households and businesses, falling coronavirus infections and the acceleration ...