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AXA hires from CFS

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2021
... and focus its efforts on ESG investments. "In this challenging environment, responsible investing has become even more central to our business priorities, with climate change representing our largest area of engagement in 2020. We are seeing growing ...

Chief economist update: A half-glass full look at inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2021
... support. What's wrong with that? What's there to fear? It'll be a good sign if the Fed - followed by other central banks - reduce policy accommodation tomorrow, indicating a return to pre-coronavirus normal.

Chief economist update: Inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021
... would remain at 0 - 0.25% until at least the year 2023. This is based on the assumptions that the PCE price index - the central bank's favoured inflation measure - would grow by 2.4% in 2021 (from 1.8% projected in December 2020) before slowing to ...

More flexibility for retirees

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... will always have more control over their money," treasurer Josh Frydenberg said. The government is also extending the central control and management test safe harbour from two to five years for self-managed super funds (SMSFs) and removing the active ...

Chief economist update: Did the BOE just announce taper?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021
... developments in financial markets since then, the pace of these continuing purchases could now be slowed somewhat." The central bank will slow bond purchases to £3.4 billion a week between May and August, from the current pace of £4.4 billion, but ...

Chief economist update: Japan's elusive virtuous cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
... enough, someday, one day, it will come true. The earliest reference to the "virtuous cycle" I found was in the Japanese central bank's "Summary of Opinions at the Monetary Policy Meeting on December 20 and 21, 2017" document. "Japan's economy ...

Chief economist update: A date with the RBA in July

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2021
... Australian economy. A pick-up in inflation and wages growth is expected, but it is likely to be only gradual and modest. In the central scenario, inflation in underlying terms is expected to be 11/2 per cent in 2021 and 2 per cent in mid 2023." "The ...

LGIAsuper picks custodian for merged fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
LGIAsuper, which is merging with Energy Supe r and recently bought S uncorp's superannuation assets, has appointed a new custodian for the total $28 billion in assets. The merged industry fund will use NAB Asset Servicing as its custodian, siding ...

ATO seeks IT contractors

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
The Australian Taxation Office will approach the market for three major managed services contracts, as it looks to refresh its IT systems. The ATO will look for contractors in: centralised computing; ender user technology, and enterprise service management ...

Chief economist update: The Fed and Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
... purchases of US Treasuries and agency mortgage-backed securities] while at the same time repeating his expectation that the US central bank will have to start raising interest rates as soon as next year. The strengthening momentum in the US economy backs ...