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Equities not that expensive: Hamish Douglass

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... equities is at its 120-year average," he said. "If this interest rate world is real, stocks don't look like they are in a bubble territory in the United States. They don't look cheap, by the way, but they are not in a bubble. "So valuations are high ...

Chief economist update: Aussie employment rises... but so does our unemployment rate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... point, I don't see what good another one or two or three RBA interest rate reductions would achieve - except blow a bubble into the stock and property markets (which would create a new set of problems). In ex-RBA governor Glenn Stevens' parlance ...

BlackRock wakes up to climate change

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... fossil fuel sector. In an open letter to other business leaders, the newly "woke" Fink likened climate change to the dot-com bubble and the global financial crisis... but worse. "Climate change is different. Even if only a fraction of the projected impacts ...

Chief economist update: How low will Lowe go?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019
... consumers become that risk turning these ominous expectations into a self-fulfilling prophecy. Moreover, it risks blowing a bubble into the property and equity markets. With no easy way out for the RBA, it's time that the government heeds calls for ...

Advisers band together: AFA Conference 2019 kicks off

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2019
With so much tension and uncertainty in the financial advice sector today, the Association of Financial Advisers is making it clear to financial advisers they are not alone. Speaking to Financial Standard ahead of the 2019 Association of Financial Advisers' ...

All options open for retirement income review

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2019
... at 15.4%. Scheerlinck suggested those laying the groundwork for a move away from compulsory superannuation lived in a "bubble" and were unaware of the difficulties faced by Australians living on the age pension without extra savings. Meanwhile, both ...

Chief economist update: The power of one

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2019
... stats stack up after the RBA cuts in June. Doing more would do more harm than good. It could re-inflate the property market bubble and household debt, that (as of the December 2018 quarter) was running at a record high 189.6% of disposable income - ultimately ...

Chief economist update: Like Britney Spears, Financial Standard's done it again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2019
... enough to restore confidence and growth in the Australian economy. This is because a second rate CUT would reignite the bubble in the property market and lift household debt to new record highs. Then again, you, I and Irene, will have to wait for how ...

Chief economist update: Policy of patience

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2019
... 500 index and the Nasdaq composite index surpassing their all-time record highs over the past few days. So much so that bubble concerns are starting to emerge and patience becomes not a virtue.

Chief economist update: A good problem to have?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2019
If not for the "bubble" - yes, bubble - that's blowing into the equity market, the US Federal Reserve's problem of continued strong growth and below-target inflation is a good problem to have. This is underscored by the latest stat updates that ...