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Chief economist update: RBA holds but for how long?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2019
... 2019 and 2020." "The central scenario is for underlying inflation to be 13/4 per cent this year, 2 per cent in 2020 and a little higher after that." "The main domestic uncertainty continues to be the outlook for household consumption." Looking back at ...

Cbus chief opposes default longevity requirements for CIPRs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2019
... among our membership and in the broader population, there remains the more significant problem of members spending too little of their retirement savings as a form of self-insurance against a future capital needs," he said. Traditional annuities not ...

Consumers trust super funds about as much as banks

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2019
... high degree of confidence in their ability to retire comfortably (ratings of seven and above). About 29% of women reported little to no confidence in their ability to retire comfortably and 38% said they knew how much money they needed for retirement. ...

Chief economist update: Beam us up Scotty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019
... around 1.5% from about 4% five years ago and over 6% 10-years before. Even yields on BBB-rated corporates are down to a little over 2% from 10% a decade ago. According to Elliott, the cost of capital should have been lowered "to around 8%" - clearly ...

Growing advice group in commissions fight

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2019
... Association (FPA) did not truly represent the views of advisers to Government," Vagliviello explained. "The AFA and the FPA did little more than give lip-service to the negative impacts of the reforms and basically walked in lock-step with the Financial ...

Leaving a legacy

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019
... have been involved in a number of startups and building businesses. We have gone through a process of trimming the tree a little bit, over the last couple of years. So we've concentrated and tried to focus on the major investments and sold off some ...

No one reads the PDS: ASIC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2019
... choose their super fund. The research showed that while members were confident about their choice, they actually had very little knowledge about their super and what they believed was often misguided," she explained. "It is the role of regulation and ...

Chief economist update: When QE is not QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2019
... already been lowered to its effective lower bound. "The purchases of Treasury bills announced on October 11 should have little if any effect on longer-term interest rates and other asset prices and thus should have little if any effect on household and ...

Chief economist update: Japan tightens fiscal policy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019
... manufacturers fall from a reading of +7 in the June quarter to +5 (the lowest reading in six years) in the third quarter provides little comfort for the Japanese central bank. More so, given the deterioration in sentiment in all the other categories ...

Grattan modelling flawed, misleading: ISA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2019
... misleading analysis." ISA said modelling done by Grattan is based on dubious assumptions that "don't stack up" and there is little evidence to support claims that an increase in super contributions will result in an equivalent reduction in wages. "There ...