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Chief economist update: Fed fights back bond bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... debt" last week in its efforts to get yields back down to its 0.10% target. These are good moves. For each and every other country central bank know what's at stake - a premature tightening of financial conditions that'll negate all the efforts ...

Chief economist update: The cloud over the rainbow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2021
... policy pledges. We all know what higher bond yields do to the stockmarket, they weigh it down. The better an individual country gets on top of the pandemic, the more "sun-shiny" its economic future becomes, the lesser the need for loose monetary and ...

Investors on red alert despite vaccines

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2021
... believing that the global economy will not recover from COVID-19 in 2021. A majority (60%) said policy makers in their home country have been ineffective in their response to the pandemic. However, investors in Asia (66%) buck the trend, saying that ...

Iress names chair, profit slides

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021
... combining the largest provider of adviser and trading software in Australia with the largest unlisted fund registry in the country. This enables us to provide the seamless execution of investment advice from Xplan," he said. Iress will pay a final dividend ...

Limited advice overdue for disruption

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021
... and have not applied for the Age Pension. "[This] is an awful situation and should not be happening anywhere let alone a country like Australia," he said. The industry must make it easy for these members to access advice around complex topics such as ...

Continuous disclosure laws to stay

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
... regardless of whether it is in members' interests. "This is an extraordinary overreach of power with no precedent in this country. his change removes the certainty needed for long-term investing and risks significant impact on investment outcomes ...

To keep or not to keep JobKeeper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
"Never ask a barber if you need a haircut," Warren Buffett once famously advised. The barber's nod will invariably be met with opposition from shampoo manufacturers. Such is the divide between the Morrison government (the barber) and labour unions ...

Chief economist update: The US inflation dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2021
... to deal with that risk if it materializes. But we face a huge economic challenge here and tremendous suffering in the country. We've got to address that. That's the biggest risk." Financial markets appear to agree... with both of them. The US ...

Chief economist update: Disappointing jobs results raise Biden's stimulus bid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021
... nominal GDP estimates, this is equivalent to the total national output of Australia and Sweden combined with the island country of Tuvalu as spare change. To be sure, recent headlines report that POTUS is determined to pass the stimulus package sans ...

APRA commends super funds on tough year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2021
... reacting to the government's early release scheme. APRA chair Wayne Byres said impact on households and businesses across the country was profound and dramatic. "APRA-regulated financial institutions (authorised deposit-taking institutions (ADIs), insurers ...