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Retirees increasingly favour income over lumps sums

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2016
... through income streams rather than withdrawing lump sums, according to new analysis released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Bjorn Jarvis, the program manager of the ABS' labour and income branch reported that almost 1.2 million people ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
... with inflation at only half this level being 0.5%s for the 12 months to end June 2016. Figures released by the UK's statistics office show that UK inflation, even though it's climbed off the floor from a year ago when inflation returned a nil result ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
... of dwellings approved fell 0.9% in June 2016, in trend terms, according to data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today. This is the second successive monthly fall. Dwelling approvals decreased in June in Western Australia (5.2%) ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016
... 1pct The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.4% in the June quarter 2016, according to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures. This follows a fall of 0.2% in the March quarter 2016. Annual inflation is now just 1.0%, its weakest level ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
China's GDP to grow 56% by 2021 Total world GDP is estimated to be A$99 trillion this year, according to the Statistics Times news service. The US as expected is ranked number one accounting for 25% of global economic output, followed by China on 15% ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2016
... with the average growth rate over the last six months, according to trend figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The latest Labour Force data shows over the past month, trend employment increased by 8,300 people to 11,933,400. ...

SuperGuard360 gives SMSF trustees greater protection

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2016
... SMSF trustee's personal identity and uses it to gain control of their fund's assets. In fact, the Australian Bureau of Statistics estimates that more than one million people each year are subject to identity fraud, including SMSF-related identity fraud ...

Responsible assets close to half of total Australia AUM

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2016
... supplied by 69 asset managers, super funds, financial advisers, banks and community investment managers, plus Morningstar statistics, shows that responsible funds under management reached $633.2 billion in 2015. Furthermore, core responsible investment ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2016
Australia housing finance The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported that the total value of dwelling finance commitments increased by 1.0% in the month of May as a 3.9% jump in "investment housing" more than offset the 0.6% fall in lending"owner ...

Returning Fed hike expectations could be flattened by yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
... strong US jobs numbers. The VIX index closed 10.6% down to a reading of 13.2 - and down on the day the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that non-farm payrolls increased by 287,000 in June. This is much, much more than even the highest forecast for ...