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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2016
... 0.3%, respectively while personal credit dipped by 0.1%. The swings in the monthly private sector credit numbers offer little directional view on the state of credit demand in Australia but the year-on-year growth rates point to slowing loan demand. ...

Insurers face significant asset risk charges from downgrade

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2016
... dramatically under increased stress strategies. Results of the analysis can be seen in the below table: "Currently, there is little an insurer can do to avoid an increased LAGIC credit charge without APRA amending the rating tiers, particularly if they ...

Mastering the art of ignoring crises

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
... market is an ok place to have your money - over the long-term it's likely to deliver a roughly 6% annual return with a little more than twice the volatility," Jordan said. "Investors will have to endure that volatility and they'll also have to endure ...

MySuper insurance widely misunderstood

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
... levels (AAL) can result in underinsurance and drawn out claims processes. "Under automatic acceptance levels there is very little underwriting, so we know very little about the actual members and so we insure millions of Australian's without actually ...

Storm Financial investor slams court decision

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
... sustained any kind of root-and-branch investigation into their behaviour." Worse still, Weir suggested that there was arguably little reason why the Storm fiasco couldn't be repeated, despite FoFA measures: "The banks enabled this to happen in conjunction ...

Yellen speaks Fedspeak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
... finger it is would be pushing the "rate hike" button, I would have done just the same. But you know what they say about a little bit of knowledge being dangerous. Let's add a bit more. Here's the entire paragraph for which the whole phrase containing ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2016
... Union (EU) as a whole dipped by 0.1 point to minus 7.8 in August from minus 7.7 in July. Japan leading economic indicator A little bit of sunshine in Japan. The final estimate of the country's leading index increased to a better than expected reading ...

Schroders joins exchange-quoted managed fund game

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2016
... and property, people have very high exposures to the same themes, very low protection from certain risks and, overall, little true diversification," Doyle said. "With historically low interest rates around the world, investors need to make some changes ...

Pension changes will impact retirement adequacy

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
... pre-2006 asset testing levels are necessary to create a more sustainable pension system, but argues it will be a lot of the little day-to-day increases to the cost of living which will cause an immediate sting to those losing their partial pension. "If ...

PROFILE: Qantas Super chief executive Michael Clancy

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
... system. "In my experience whilst a lot of people might seem to be less engaged with superannuation unprompted, with just a little bit of prompting they are very interested - and a lot of people understand they need to take a greater interest but aren't ...