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Chief economist update: Lowe taking interest rates lower

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
... good enough and not if the RBA could help it. Speaking at Citi's 12th Annual Australia and New Zealand Investment Conference, RBA Governor Philip Lowe all but confirmed that further easing in monetary policy is in the works. Although he believes ...

Chief economist update: October rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020
... day after RBA deputy governor Guy Debelle addressed the Australian Industry Group's (AiG) September 22 virtual conference, predicting that the Australian central bank will cut interest rates when the board next meet on October 6. According to Bill ...

Chief economist update: RBA negative on negative interest rate policy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2020
... Australia (RBA) deputy governor Guy Debelle address at the Australian Industry Group's (AiG) September 22 virtual conference sparked a second wave - a second wave of negative interest rate speculation, that is. It was last on the list of four monetary ...

Chief economist update: V in US recovery at risk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
... confidence. Here's the headline from the latest Conference Board's consumer confidence index report: "The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index decreased in August, after declining in July. The Index now stands at 84.8 (1985=100), down from ...

Chief economist update: Not easy easing restrictions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
... previous month as businesses reopened and workers went back to work. Consumer confidence has also improved. The Conference Board and the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index have risen sequentially in May and June from the seven-year ...

Link feels impact of COVID-19

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... the group rolls out optional pay cuts to its leadership team. In a presentation to the Macquarie Australian Investors Conference yesterday, Link Group said that as at May 5 it had processed $3.65 billion payments for about half a million super fund members. ...

Darwinian time for super

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... was expecting more mergers to emanate from the pandemic, in an investor update to the Macquarie Australia Investor Conference. Outlining how the firm expected its various business units to be impacted by the pandemic, Link said that over the medium to ...

Janus Henderson AGM to go ahead

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... be answered on an individual basis. Shareholders will still be able to listen to the meeting through a listen-only conference call and webcast. The company added that it is taking these measures to ensure the AGM is as safe and efficient as possible ...

Chief economist update: Welcome to the day after tomorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... expecting to "coordinate" policy responses, pause for thought. For as Fed chair Jerome Powell explained in his press conference: "We do recognise that a rate cut won't reduce the rate of infection... It won't fix a broken supply chain. We get ...

ATO clamps down on auditor number misuse

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
An auditing discussion at the SMSF Association's annual conference turned to the ATO's recent efforts to stamp out SMSFs lying about audits and misusing auditor numbers. Super Sphere director Belinda Aisbett, Elite Super director Katrina Fletcher ...