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AIOFP launches fresh campaign, criticises FPA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... have clearly stated on their website the current activities are only 'temporally' suspended." The paper also includes a theory on the motives behind some of the legislation that has impacted independent financial advisers. One of those theories is that ...

Will COVID-19 kill the balanced option?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... fund league tables that use investment returns as the only measure of success. "Mean reversion is a well-known financial theory which says that prices and historical returns revert to a mean (or average) over the long-run," Geffin said. "In practice ...

Chief economist update: A whole new world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2020
... There went "just-in-time" supply management too - a 1990s phenomenon thought to have limited recessions. Another long-held theory being shoo'd out by the coronavirus is David Ricardo's theory of competitive advantage, used by economists everywhere ...

Financial Standard Holiday Cooking Guide 2019

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019
... ago) humans first started growing grains in order to create long lasting storable and nutritious food. According to recent theory, they first used it to make beer and then late to make bread (probably using the beer as a source of wild yeast for leavening) ...

Flaws in Grattan SG research: Report

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
... repeated assertions to that effect in a circular and repetitive exercise in "groupthink," the research reads. "Economic theory (in contrast to the assertive claims of some analysts and newspaper columnists) does not expect a full and complete offset ...

Chief economist update: Negative bang for RBA, government's buck

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2019
"Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act." - Howard Zinn Taken after the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) third interest rate reduction this year which brought the official cash rate ...

Chief economist update: Don't buy a Big Mac in America

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... the US dollar - based on its Big Mac index - show that POTUS has reason to cry foul. "The Big Mac index is based on the theory of purchasing-power parity (PPP), which states that currencies should adjust until the price of an identical basket of goods-or ...

University to probe reverse mortgages

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
... demand and product design, under senior research fellow Dr Katja Hanewald and Professor Hazel Bateman. "While economic theory predicts that households would demand reverse mortgages to improve retirement funding, the take-up rates for reverse mortgages ...

Chief economist update: A capitalist in communist clothes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2019
... Keynes. China's right in the thick of employing Keynesian Economics - a capitalist/market economy stabilisation policy theory advising increased government spending to shore up domestic demand in times of recession and/or slowing growth. And if that's ...

Parametric critiques Productivity Commission's final report

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
... Commission laid down some paths to better member outcomes, including higher returns and lower fees, which make sense in theory but are controversial in practice. Our message is that tax efficiency can be as effective, is less controversial and has hardly ...