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Chief economist update: Powell Power

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2018
We may have a Santa Claus rally this year after all! US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell spooked us all - in the Halloween month of October - when, in an interview with PBS, he declared that: "The really extremely accommodative low interest rates ...

FS Power50 names most influential advisers in 2018

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018
... right by their clients. "There's Eleanor Dartnall who helped push through the downsizer contribution reforms this year, Ben Nash who published a finance book for millennials and Charles Badenach who wrote a guide to help migrants understand the financial ...

Chief economist update: The art of the deal in action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018
Are we seeing US President Donald Trump's "The Art of the Deal" in real-time, live and in action? Ever since Trump declared a trade war with China in late March this year, there have been actual implementations, threats, some concessions and now ...

AMP Capital adds to student living portfolio

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
AMP Capital entered a long-term agreement to manage the first student accommodation facilities to be offered at the University of Melbourne. The investment manager, via the AMP Capital Diversified Infrastructure Trust, will manage the refurbishment ...

Chief economist update: Is TLTRO III coming?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
Minutes of the European Central Bank's (ECB) 24-25 October Governing Council meeting confirmed that it remains on track to end its net asset purchases - currently at a monthly pace of €15 billion - by the end of December 2018. No probs here. We've ...

Labor franking credit changes fair but not the best: Grattan

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
Grattan Institute has called Labor's plan to end refunds of excess franking credits a "fair way" to improve the Federal Budget but it is still "second-best" as there are better solutions. Grattan's budget policy director Danielle Wood and fellow ...

Productivity Commission pushes for superannuation scale benefits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
The Productivity Commission has made another "compelling" argument for economies of scale in superannuation, estimating it to save the industry $340 million each year. The benefits however, aren't flowing to members. In its final supplementary paper ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street in drunken sailor's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
The ups and downs in US equities over the past weeks reminds me of the book, "A Random Walk on Wall Street", authored by Princeton University economics professor Burton Malkiel back in 1973, which posited that: "...short run changes in stock prices ...

BEAR should be expanded, ASIC included: Shipton

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
ASIC chair James Shipton said he is in favour of applying the Banking Executive Accountability Regime to senior ASIC staff while being quizzed on the regulator's current governance. After telling Senior Counsel Assisting Rowena Orr that he believes ...

Royal Commission: ASIC rethinks negotiation tactics

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
ASIC chair James Shipton has admitted the corporate regulator was too reliant on negotiating resolutions with financial services firms and flagged litigation could take precedence, the Royal Commission heard. Shipton told counsel assisting Rowena Orr ...