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Data dictates immediate BOE action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
... have been accelerating. At face value, these stats indicate that there's no more trade-off, the BOE's monetary policy committee (MPC) should raise interest rates now. However, as Gertjan Vlieghe - MPC external member - said in his interview with The ...

Australia can benefit from Brexit and Trump

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
... good news is that Australia has a comparative advantage in those products," the report reads. CEDA Research and Policy Committee chairman Rodney Maddock said outbound investment from Australia currently sits at more than $540 billion per year, with the ...

Price-pressured

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2017
The latest inflation stats out of the UK gave additional credence to BOE monetary policy committee member Kristin Forbes' dissent - she "considered it appropriate to increase Bank Rate by 25 basis points" -- at the March meeting. Along with the low ...

SMSFA appoints high profile former politicians

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
... Greiner and former Labor parliamentary secretary Bernie Ripoll will become members of the association's public policy committee. "This is the first time the association has looked outside its own membership ranks by asking two prominent Australians boasting ...

One Direction and the BOE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
... regards to the way forward. The BOE's policy statement specifically named one of the nine members of the monetary policy committee (MPC) who dissented with the majority: "Kristin Forbes considered it appropriate to increase Bank Rate by 25 basis points". ...

Three for three

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
... As with the BOJ and the Fed, the Bank of England (BOE) did what financial markets expected when its monetary policy committee met on the 2nd of February. The BOE kept policy setting unchanged -- Bank Rate at a record low of 0.25% and asset purchases ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2016
... in August. This was the Bank of England's message after its 14 July policy deliberations - the first monetary policy committee meeting post-Brexit -- where it left the Bank Rate unchanged at 0.5% and maintained its asset purchases at £375 billion In ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2016
... across the bow after Brexit. "To support the supply of credit and in support of market functioning," the Financial Policy Committee (FPC) of the Bank of England (BOE) -- at its policy meetings on 28 June and 1 July - announced: "The FPC reduced the UK ...

Time to review MySuper effectiveness

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016
A superannuation advisory group says now is an opportune time for funds and members to review MySuper offerings and question whether it's the solution they were looking for. One of superannuation's largest reforms, the transition of default members ...

Parting could be such sweet sorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2016
... 5.6% lower than it would otherwise have been sans Brexit. There's the Bank of England (BOE): In its monetary policy committee meeting held last week, the BOE noted that, "the most significant risks to the MPC's forecast concern the referendum. A vote ...