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BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2016
If anything, the continued increase in Australian job advertisements affirm the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) positive take on the domestic labour market. In its February Statement on Monetary Policy, the Australian central bank noted that, "A concentration ...

Global central banks going for the cut

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... trends in a disinflationary global environment, according to RBC Capital Market chief economist and head of Australian research Su-Lin Ong. Speaking at the 2016 Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum in Sydney, Ong noted recent sharp moves in equity ...

New standards for member engagement

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
Sunsuper, AMP and QSuper are setting a new standard for superannuation member engagement according to the latest report from market researcher Investment Trends. $32 billion Sunsuper has been labeled as having the most innovative and accomplished digital ...

Actuaries Institute appoints new president

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... expects this will build on its public policy work in 2015, which included the "For Richer, For Poorer" retirement incomes research launched by David Murray. "The Institute will also build on the substantial work of my predecessor, Estelle Pearson, and ...

Those who want a job can get a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
Fed action is data-dependent. These words have been etched into Fed policy statements for as long as I could remember. The data most relevant to the US central bank, of course, are those that directly reveal progress on its dual "statutory mandate" ...

Jobs at risk from second machine age

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... impacted. The report estimated that more than 128,000 jobs in the industry are risk of disappearing in the next 20 years. The research is supported by a more recent note by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) focused on the insurance industry which predicted ...

Risks are overstated: AUI

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
Some of the risks for the year ahead have been overstated and there are still plenty of opportunities to make good investments, according to Australian Unity Investments' joint venture asset managers. At a briefing in Sydney, Wingate Asset Management ...

Deflation and China pose biggest risks: PIMCO

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
US asset management giant PIMCO is most concerned about a slowdown in China, deflation and central banks not having the necessary firepower to mitigate further economic shocks. Despite those risks, the fund manager's base asset allocation is overweight ...

Who spooked the greenback?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
Have financial markets stumbled on the one catalyst that could herald the beginning of the end... the end of the sour taste in their mouths for all things "risk" since the onset of 2016? They're getting back their mojos. Many, many times I have scribbled ...

Core holdings will be lacklustre in 2016: SSGA

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2016
The core of every investor's portfolio is going to be lacklustre in 2016, said State Street Global Advisers head of investments Kevin Anderson at the Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum in Sydney. The markets expert said investors need to make ...