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SMSF Association names new chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2018
... for Financial Studies, she is an experienced company director with board appointments including the Reserve Bank of Australia Payments System Board, the publicly listed Mortgage Choice, and the YBR FinTech Hub Advisory Board." Ralston said it is an honour ...

Chief economist update: RBA to lift rates after 2018

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... their signal about their intent? Should the rumblings on Wall Street continue, those predicting that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would maintain the status quo on monetary policy and keep the official cash rate at a record low of 1.5% for all ...

Money managers eye household debt

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
... introduced in the wake of the GFC, all of which has significant consequences for money managers in 2018. The Reserve Bank of Australia is also expected to begin stepping back from historically low interest rates, though economist Saul Eslake predicts ...

Chief economist update: Consumers don't spend on confidence alone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
... that's a word) and China's double-digit growth went single. But perhaps the more direct cause was the Reserve Bank of Australia's (policy response), it continued to raising the official cash rate from what was then the all-time low of 3% in 2009 to 4.75% ...

A case for faster wages growth (or not)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2017
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) didn't disappoint market expectations when it conducted its last board meeting for 2017. The Australian central bank kept the official cash rate where it had been since August 2016, at a record low 1.5%. The December ...

Iron ore's ups and downs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017
How could the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) get it so spectacularly wrong? You, I and Irene could be forgiven for thinking so if you overlay today's Australian Financial Review's (AFR) headline, "Iron ore extends rally, fresh bull market beckons" ...

'tis the season to not be jolly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2017
... spending that... Were it not for Australia's record high household debt and still high property prices, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would, at the very least, be changing its policy stance towards greater accommodation by now. Perhaps the better ...

Changed RBA rate expectations?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
... that the recent rally in the Australian equity market is due to gradually rising expectations that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) could change its policy stance from steady to greater accommodation sometime soon?

Cbus replaces two board members

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017
... completed their three-year term. Edwards most recently served a five-year term as a board member of the Reserve Bank of Australia, and is currently a non-resident fellow at the Lowy Institute, an adjunct professor with the John Curtin Institute of Public ...

Surefire Melbourne Cup bet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2017
Want a sure bet for next week's Melbourne Cup? Bet on the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) not moving on interest rates when its board meets on Melbourne Cup Day, Tuesday 7 November. Yes Virginia, I know, it's like saying that sugar is sweet and made ...