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Changed RBA rate expectations?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
... that the recent rally in the Australian equity market is due to gradually rising expectations that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) could change its policy stance from steady to greater accommodation sometime soon?

Cbus replaces two board members

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017
... completed their three-year term. Edwards most recently served a five-year term as a board member of the Reserve Bank of Australia, and is currently a non-resident fellow at the Lowy Institute, an adjunct professor with the John Curtin Institute of Public ...

Surefire Melbourne Cup bet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2017
Want a sure bet for next week's Melbourne Cup? Bet on the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) not moving on interest rates when its board meets on Melbourne Cup Day, Tuesday 7 November. Yes Virginia, I know, it's like saying that sugar is sweet and made ...

Ex-RBA Governor joins Macquarie

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
Macquarie Group and Macquarie Bank will welcome a former Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia to its boards next month. Glenn Stevens, who served as Governor between 2006 and 2016, will join both boards on November 1 as an independent director. ...

Crestone names new chief investment officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2017
... of macro research, Australia and New Zealand. Prior to UBS, he served as a senior economist for the Reserve Bank of Australia and is a former trustee director of Australian Christian Superannuation.

We cannot underestimate humans: Sicilia

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
... disparity in wealth and technology being "massively deflationary" Sicilia said. He questions why the Reserve Bank of Australia governor said to the Australian people 'go ask for a wage rise,' but nobody queued outside their HR manager's door on Monday ...

Interest rates on ice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2017
It was a ho-hum event, the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) 3 October board meeting, that is. The Australian central bank kept interest rates unchanged as widely expected. This takes to 14 the number of months the RBA has kept the official interest ...

A matter of assumptions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2017
While most of the world's biggest central banks have embraced uber-transparency, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) appears to still be subscribing to "fedspeak". It's still keeping Australians in the dark about its next policy movement. In its September ...

Peak iron ore?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2017
Governor Philip Lowe's statement explaining the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) monetary policy decision to keep interest rates unchanged at 1.5% at their 5 September Board meeting, revealed the Australian central bank's optimism over the international ...

Lower returns but higher balances for SMSFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
... interest rates and equity returns remaining 'lower 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 ...