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Chief economist update: The trend is not our friend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018
... upward pressure on wages. All else being equal, this would exert upward pressure on interest rates as the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) tries to prevent wage inflation from spilling over into consumer prices. Higher interest rates, in turn, carry negative ...

AIST names Governance Code panel

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2018
... Superannuation Working Group from 2010 to 2015. He has also previously worked for the World Bank and the Reserve Bank of Australia. Brunner will be joined on the panel by former HESTA director Maree O'Halloran and Michelle Wright, a non-executive director ...

Super calculators given further ASIC relief

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... it must adjust for inflation using an assumed rate of inflation of 2.5%. This is the mid-point of the Reserve Bank of Australia's target range for inflation over the cycle. As a result of the extension, the inflation requirement will not apply to retirement ...

Insto mandate seeds Aviva fund launch

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... all this in mind, the AIMS Fixed Income Fund will aim to achieve a 3% per annum gross return above the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cash rate and before fees over any rolling three-year period. It will invest in a diversified portfolio of between ...

Senior RBA figure joins life insurer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
The chief information officer at the Reserve Bank of Australia will join MLC Life in a newly created executive role. Sarv Girn will join MLC Life's leadership team in the new position of chief innovation and transformation officer. Girn will lead the ...

Chief economist update: Australia low on credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
Those still expecting the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to raise the official cash rate - even at least once this year - may have to re-think their call. For sure, economic dynamics may change sometime down the road but given the current slowing trend ...

Chief economist update: Three minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
... where the central banks think we are and where they plan to take us. The minutes of the meetings of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), the European Central Bank (ECB) and the US Federal Reserve (Fed) were released last week. Despite their economies ...

Chief economist update: As luck would have it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018
... iron ore prices have risen by 7.4% to US$78.30/tonne. This is higher than the US$77.50 at the time the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) met on 5 September last year. The minutes of that meeting later revealed the board's expectations for iron ore prices ...

Chief economist update: The real growth in wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2018
... across industries, "outside of retail". Weak growth in wages will keep inflation low, providing the Reserve Bank of Australia neither rhyme nor reason to raise interest rates anytime soon. Ben Ong is the Director of Economics and Investments at Rainmaker ...

Chief economist update: Wagering on wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2018
... growth in wages to remain unchanged at a 2% rate in the fourth quarter from the third. Reading from the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) monetary policy statement after its 6 February meeting, the Australian central bank is wagering on the same: "Notwithstanding ...