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Data says not yet but what would Janet say?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2016
... This, along with soft consumer spending (implied in last night's retail sales report), would discourage US businesses from raising selling prices.

Rising age pension costs unfair on young people: CIS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
... preservation age should also be lifted so that it is no more five years below the pension age. The CIS's proposal regarding raising the preservation age reinforces similar proposals made by the Financial Services Council (FSC). The National Seniors lobby ...

Monash launches absolute return LIC

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2016
Monash Investors has launched an Australian equities absolute return listed invested company. In response to demand from retail investors, The Monash Absolute Investment Company will have a similar portfolio to Monash's long short Monash Absolute Investment ...

Drummond resignation prompts NAB leadership changes

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2016
... and SGA portfolios, the 80% sale of the life insurance business, the demerger and IPO of CYBG and the largest capital raising in Australian corporate history. NAB chief executive Andrew Thorburn said he is now moving on to the next stage in his career. ...

Australian dividend growth outpaces global peers

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2016
... strong Australian underlying growth of 14.8%. "Banks did very well, with Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Westpac both raising their distribution, even in US dollar terms. The regulator is tightening its grip on bank balance sheets, however, which ...

Regulators coordinating efforts to protect super

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2016
... arms-length overview of what's going on." Tanzer added that most of ASIC's efforts in the SMSF sector were currently centred on raising standards. A recent focus on SMSF auditors had unearthed some 400 people practicing without the appropriate qualifications ...

Risks are overstated: AUI

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
... stimulus programs and that will leave bond investors exposed. "The expectation is for three rate rises in the US during 2016, raising rates to between 0.75 and 1 per cent. Clearly, however, if we had a financial crisis of some kind we could expect a ...

DomaCom raises $8m in pre-IPO capital

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
... the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in the third quarter of 2016 after collecting $8 million in a pre-IPO capital raising. DomaCom, owner of Australia's first regulated fractional property investment fund, said investors have supported the $0.50 ...

Not so durable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016
The drop (big time) in US durable goods orders - a leading indicator of business investment -- in December is raising doubts over the durability of the economy's expansion. To be sure, most economists were already expecting orders to take a hit after ...

Drown baby, drown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... posited in Economics 101 - underscored by continuing concerns over weak/weakening global economic growth. Worse, it's raising fears that the current low-flation environment could morph into outright deflation. The Japanese experience shows how much more ...