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Grant Samuel wins RE mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
... fee will reduce from 10.25% to 10%, GST included. The hurdle rate necessary to earn a performance fee will change from the RBA Cash Rate to the Australian Government 10YR Bond Yield + 3.5% per annum. The Munro Global Growth Fund invests in international ...

Capex brings cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
... confident, I certainly can't. I've allowed the horse to come to the water with cheap funding. I can't make it drink." This was then RBA governor Glenn Stevens' statement to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics in his August 2014 ...

OECD tells RBA to take a hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
... 2017, 2.1% in 2018 and 2.2% in 2019; unemployment rate at 5.6% in 2017, 5.4% in 2018 and 5.3% in 2019. This compares with the RBA's forecasts written in its November 2017 'Statement on Monetary Policy'. It's better on GDP growth - 2.5% in 2017, 3.25% ...

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" ...

Where in the cycle is Australia?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2017
... average around 3% over the next few years" and "inflation to pick up gradually as the economy strengthens." (7 November 2017, RBA policy statement). Now where am I? Looking at this week's battery of Australian economic and survey releases, we're lost...or ...

'tis the season to not be jolly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2017
... 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 paid public ...

Australian business conditions gone gangbusters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2017
... certainly doesn't fit with the current record low level of the official cash rate (1.5%) nor the current neutral stance in RBA monetary policy. The last time business conditions were nearly this lovely (+20 in July 2007), the official cash rate was at ...

Beyond 6000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2017
... over the next seven years. The second attempt was in 2015 when it reached 5973.32 points in March of that year, aided by the RBA's 25 bps interest rate reduction to 2.25% in February and the corresponding drop in the Australian dollar exchange rate which ...

Changed RBA rate expectations?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
... 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?

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 ...