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Hiring outlook subdued: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
Despite numerous job indices recording a rosy hiring outlook in 2019, Financial Standard's latest poll shows readership optimism is more subdued. Half of the financial services firms surveyed plan to decrease headcount this year. About a third (30%) ...

Sydney residential property slumps

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
... drivers for the weaker national reading, most regions around the country have reacted to tighter credit conditions by recording weaker housing market results relative to 2017," Lawless said. "The two exceptions were regional Tasmania, where the pace ...

Super funds edge towards a flat 2018

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 DEC 2018
... $22 billion was wiped from MySuper returns since January. However, some funds were able to manage the downside well. Recording this is the SelectingSuper MySuper/Default index, which fell 3.2% in October and lost all its gains since January 2018. Rainmaker ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... to just 0.2% in the September quarter from 0.5% in the June quarter, and private investment subtracted 0.1 pps after recording no contribution in the previous quarter. Whatever growth in consumer spending is there is due to households dipping into their ...

New accounting standards put pressure on life insurers

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
... said. IFRS 9 will add to the volatility in insurers' profit and loss reporting as it allows more choices to be made in recording valuation gains or losses on investment portfolios. In a sense, Guse said the two standards are inter-related. "This is why ...

Freedom sold life insurance to intellectually disabled man: Royal Commission

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2018
... Stewart told the Commission how Freedom sold life insurance to his son - who suffers from Down Syndrome - in 2016. In a recording of a phone call Stewart (his son's carer) made to cancel the policy, a Freedom agent disputes Stewart's assertion that the ...

Chief economist update: China's neo-great leap forward

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... Australian Financial Review (AFR) "...in the weeks before the MSCI China A-share inclusion, buying accelerated, with April recording a high monthly northbound net inflow of 40.54 yuan, up 222% on March's northbound inflow and a staggering four times ...

Advice firm impersonated clients

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
... McKenna to gain details of her Commonwealth super scheme and entitlements. The Royal Commission was played an audio recording of a phone call made by a Henderson Maxwell staffer to the State Authorities Superannuation Scheme on 7 November, 2017 - the ...

Chief economist update: Japan's other war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... safe-haven purchases of the Japanese yen. The yen has appreciated by 6.1% versus the greenback this year to date (after recording a 3.1% increase in 2017). It goes without saying that the Japanese currency's appreciation alone would give America a competitive ...

Chief economist update: Inflation isn't such a lonely word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
... rate up to 2.7% from 2.6%. The core PPI-FD index - less food and energy - increased by 0.4% in the month January after recording a 0.1% decline in the previous month. While the latest figure brought the annual rate of growth in the core measure down ...