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Chief economist update: Economy slows to decade low but still tops the pops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
... components of GDP (C+I+G+X-M) suggest, we'll be right mates! C for consumption. The stabilisation in the Australian property market (if it persists) plus the tax cuts plus lower interest rates plus still low unemployment (albeit, lacklustre wage ...

Investec scores ADI licence

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2019
... that Investec is growing its Australian presence and follows the recent listing of the $800 million Investec Australian Property Fund on the ASX. Georgina Lynch was recently appointed as an independent non-executive director of the fund. She is currently ...

Chief economist update: Aussie property price falls become self-fulfilling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2019
... International Monetary Fund's (IMF) lead analyst for Australia. No prizes for guessing, Helbling was talking about Australian property prices and the rising momentum of their rates of decline. The following two charts track the latest figures from ...

Chief economist update: Rosy assumptions a Budget surplus make

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
... growth weakens from an annual growth of 2.0% this year to 1.75% in the next two. The continuing decline in the Australian property market would add to household consumption restraint. Having said that, the Coalition's rosy scenario might still come ...

Chief economist update: Cut it, cut it now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2019
... have to rein in their spending quite a bit." Note that Luci's speech was delivered before the decline in Australian property prices hasn't yet gained momentum.

Chief economist update: Time for an RBA shift to neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... construction index, among others - are equally foreboding. So is the fast accelerating momentum in the decline in Australian property prices, led by Sydney - down 9.7% in the year to January (CoreLogic RP Data Home Value Index) - and Melbourne - down ...

HNWs to embrace alternatives in 2019: Fund manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
... risk and fee budgets towards alternatives," he said. "In fact, the current decline in client portfolios from Australian property and large listed companies will challenge advisers and investors to allocate more of their portfolios into global and private ...

Chief economist update: Bring on Aussie dollar depreciation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
... 1.0% (versus its previous forecasts that it would remain steady at 1.5%) due do the accelerating decline in Australian property prices. It's logically rational that's also consistent with weakening global growth -- in particular, China -- and ...

Chief economist update: Don't buy now, Australian property will be cheaper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2019
... cash rate. The change in the outlook is due to Capital Economics' expectation that the downturn in the Australian property market would intensify and that: "The experience from housing downturns in other advanced economies is that central banks nearly ...

Chief economist update: Australian property market slump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
Be afraid, be very afraid! With headlines like these, not only those who have their fingers in the Australian property pie should be scared, us, Australians all, should be. "Australia's housing price drop expected to be the worst in the world" - ...