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Chief economist update: Australia's low(er)-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2018
Will the next move in the official cash rate, as Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Philip Lowe put it, likely "be up, rather than down"? To answer this, we have to look at the RBA's mandate of full employment and meeting an "agreed medium-term ...

Chief economist update: Keep one eye open on the housing market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2018
... 1 - or maybe it's been out-headlined by news of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). But the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) met as usual on the first Tuesday of the month (except January), on October 2. It could be both, plus of course, the fact ...

Chief economist update: Confidence down, conditions up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2018
Et tu, Brute? The Australian version of the Shakespearean drama, Julius Caesar, that saw Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull politically assassinated (and replaced with the Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison) in the dying days of August may have played a ...

ASIC hires former super executives

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2018
... (alternative and quantitative). Press' prior experience includes working at SBC Asset Management and the Reserve Bank of Australia. Hughes has been group general counsel for Tabcorp since July 2017. Before this, he was the chief risk and legal officer ...

Asset consultant expands capital markets team

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2018
A former representative of the Reserve Bank of Australia at the G20 Investment and Infrastructure Working Group recently joined an asset consultant with more than $300 billion in funds under advice. Frontier Advisors appointed Philip Naylor to its capital ...

Chief economist update: Do nothing RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
If all goes according to expectations, today's Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Board meeting will mark one-month and two years (25 months) that the country's cash rate had been stuck at a record low 1.50%, and the longest stretch of unchanged ...

Chief economist update: Not before we get a pay rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
Just in time for tomorrow's Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) monthly board meeting, ME Bank published the results of the 14th survey of its "Household Financial Comfort Report", taken last June. "The ME Household Financial Comfort Report provides ...

Chief economist update: Inflation genie still inside the box

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2018
The stats are out and they reveal that Australia's inflation genie is still inside the box. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) consumer price index report showed headline inflation accelerated to 2.1% in the year to the June quarter ...

Advisers on scam alert

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2018
... highly regulated environment overseen by two independent Australian government agencies - ASIC and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) so more regulation may not necessarily prevent or reduce the number of investment scams," she said. "To combat the ...

Industry expert joins SMSFA board

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2018
... financial services and superannuation. Ralston serves on numerous boards, including YBF Ventures and the Reserve Bank of Australia. The SMSFA has 1.1 million members who have more than $712 billion of funds under management. It recently teamed up with ...