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Chief economist update: Morrison, Frydenberg cannot have their surplus and eat it too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
Recent headlines underscore what Financial Standard had been ranting about months before. Those rants include The general economic uncertainty wouldn't be sufficient to prod businesses and consumers to invest and spend, even if interest rates were ...

Senate secures members' interest changes

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2019
Insurance in superannuation is now opt-in only for new members under the age of 25 and those with low account balances, after the government's Putting Members' Interests First super reforms passed through the Senate yesterday. The Senate passed ...

Support staff should meet FASEA standards

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2019
BT head of financial literacy and advocacy Bryan Ashenden told the Financial Standard and Challenger Technical Services Forum that FASEA standards should raise questions for support staff as well as advisers. Appearing at the event yesterday, Ashenden ...

First carbon neutral super fund named

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
... on their carbon neutrality". HESTA is a member of the Investor Group on Climate Change and the Climate Action 100+, which push for improved climate change policy and action from governments and organisations around the globe. In July this year, HESTA ...

ASIC clamps down on poor advice, grandfathered commissions

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2019
... accessible information about the work it conducts in the sector. ASIC also flagged it will work diligently to help Frydenberg push through numerous legislative reforms stemming from the banking Royal Commission and Productivity Commission inquiry into ...

Chief economist update: The hazard of being a safe haven

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2019
We're now all too familiar with the heightened volatility in financial markets; the slowdown in global economic growth, led by rising expectations for a US recession (and perhaps, Germany); the trade war - US and China, Japan and South Korea; Brexit ...

Super sector needs to end culture war

KRISTI CHENG  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... government comments that this was a "dangerous development" and that super was "not a plaything for union bosses nor a platform to push their industrial relations agenda". The Senator made headlines in his maiden speech last month, where he advocated ...

Chief economist update: Greater than the Great Recession of 2008

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2019
You know the world's in trouble when the Fed starts contemplating negative interest rates... and then some. "There are other types of policies that probably aren't getting as much analysis. But one is negative interest rate policies. Those are ...

Pinnacle profits up 32%

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... money in the year - split as $2.9 from retail investors and the remaining from institutional investors. Pinnacle has made a push into listed funds (LICs, LITs and recently ETFs) which accounted for almost a third of retail inflows of the year $2.9 billion. ...

Chief economist update: Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
"If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War China's just implemented one of its greatest son's prescriptions and, for sure and for certain, it's gonna irritate Trump. Financial markets were shell-shocked ...