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Chief economist update: Small business is big business

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2018
... net 16% (up two points from June) raising average selling prices. I leave the final comment to the NFIB: "Now the second longest expansion in history, Main Street is set to push this expansion to a new record by adding a super-charged era of growth on ...

Chief economist update: Do nothing RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
... mark one-month and two years (25 months) that the country's cash rate had been stuck at a record low 1.50%, and the longest stretch of unchanged interest rates at that. For sure and for certain, financial markets would hear what they expect to hear ...

FASEA-induced exodus increasingly likely

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2018
... SMSFs will find themselves required to do a one or three subject bridging course. Those who have been in the industry the longest may need to complete the full graduate diploma," he said. As for the exam - the guidance on which was released last week ...

Chief economist update: Steady at 24 and counting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
... official cash rate unchanged at a record low 1.5% following its 3 July board meeting. It has been 24 months now - the longest in recent history - that the official cash rate has remained stuck at 1.5%. It was last lowered from 1.75% in August 2016 and ...

TAL veterans launch new life insurance provider

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2018
... chosen to work with the best of the best. NEOS life insurance products are issued by NobleOak, one of Australia's longest standing insurers, and are reinsured by a subsidiary of one of the world's largest insurers, Pacific Life Re," NEOS said ...

Life insurer early intervention a win: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
... "Claims for mental illness are particularly costly, with relatively high median compensation payments and, by far, the longest median time spent off work (16 weeks) compared with other injuries or illness," it said. AIA Australia and New Zealand chief ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to an RBA cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
... inflation return to target is expected, although this progress is likely to be gradual." It had been 23 long months now - the longest in recent history - that the official cash rate has remained stuck at 1.5%. It was last lowered from 1.75% in August ...

Chief economist update: Onwards and downwards to a recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2018
... three-month period. Another quarter of negative GDP growth would bring it back into a technical recession. Apart from ending the longest stretch of quarterly economic expansions since 1989 - 12 straight quarters of growth between the June 1986 quarter ...

New super fund combats account erosion for young Aussies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2018
... said. "Although this is the decade of the smallest contributions, the first decade of super will also compound for the longest period of time. So it's important to get it right." Student Super members with balances of less than $1000 will not incur fees ...

Chief economist update: The yen's on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
... forward because despite the slowdown in fourth quarter GDP growth, it marked the eight straight quarter of expansion - the longest stretch since the 1980s. The details of the National Accounts suggest that this would continue. Japanese household consumption ...