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Low rates signify opportunity for reinvesting

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2016
... positive economic story - one of the rare ones compared to the rest of the globe - but China's consumption continues to lower and iron ore prices will probably remain closer to a low than an all-time high, meaning that one of Australia's key industries ...

Flat Australian dividends help case for global diversification

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
... weak spots in the region have been company-driven, or owing to specific sector trends like the impact of lower commodity prices, rather than related to wider economic difficulties. "The slowdown in US dividend growth is not a cause for concern. It began ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2016
... the country's unemployment rate stood at 4.9% in the April to June period, unchanged from the first quarter and sharply lower than the 5.6% rate recorded a year earlier. This is the lowest unemployment rate since the 4.7% rate recorded in the September ...

Is gold on the ceiling for Australian investors?

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... for the next few years." He cites the firm's own research that shows gold has returned about 23% when interest rates are lower than 2% in Australia. At a separate event on Tuesday, Avoca Investment Management portfolio manager John Campbell was bearish ...

Economic wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
... million head sold, they added. Coupled with strong international demand, Australian grainfed beef exports were assisted by a lower Australian dollar for most of the year. Against the USD the AUD averaged US 0.728 cents for the year and was 13% lower ...

So what if Australia loses its 'AAA'?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016
... longer be compatible with the country's high level of external indebtedness". "There is a one-in-three chance that we could lower the rating within the next two years if we believe that parliament is unlikely to legislate savings or revenue measures ...

Britons vote 'Adieu EU'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2016
... 0.2% in the month of April following an upwardly revised 0.8% (from 0.7%) rise in the previous month. The April result is lower than market expectations for a 0.6% gain and was the slowest pace of monthly increase since August last year. Year on year ...

Investors must adapt to capital light era

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2016
By 2030 financial services providers and investors will need to adapt to a world requiring lower funding for smaller scale investments in comparison with Australia's recent mining boom. This is one of several views held by ANZ in its Servicing Australia's ...

Parting could be such sweet sorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2016
... and property markets and it would hit living standards. Overall, the IMF predicts UK economic growth by 2019 would be 5.6% lower than it would otherwise have been sans Brexit. There's the Bank of England (BOE): In its monetary policy committee meeting ...