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Chief economist update: AUD on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... latest official PMI survey shows both manufacturing and non-manufacturing activity remaining in expansion in August - the sixth straight month since they contracted in February. China's recovery is boosting commodity prices. Although still 17.9% ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 cuts capex

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020
... the three months to June versus expectations for an 8.4% drop but the latest contraction in business investment marked the sixth consecutive quarter of decline and is the sharpest since the March 2016 quarter - one of the factors that prompted the Reserve ...

Chief economist update: Could COVID-19 dissenters be correct?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
"I see dead people." - The Sixth Sense Coronavirus conspiracy theorists and/or "sovereigns"-- those who refuse to obey government advice and/or restrictions for one reason/cause/principle or another - are getting a bad rap lately. Correction, they've ...

Super for women under scrutiny

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... fuels, tobacco, weapons and more. Hobbs said Verve's fees are comparable to many industry super funds and that Verve was the sixth top performing fund for the year ending 30 April 2020. Hobbs and Lusher agree that more needs to be done to create parity ...

Trust in advisers wanes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2020
... interest duty. A global investor survey, conducted at the back end of last year by the CFA Institute, shows Australia rank sixth out of 15 major markets when it comes to trust in financial services - just 24% of Aussie investors say they trust the industry. ...

HESTA asks Retirement Income Review to consider ERS

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... HESTA members have withdrawn from their superannuation savings under the Federal Government's early release scheme - the sixth highest among all funds by amount. Just over half of these were aged 24 to 39 years. After the withdrawals, HESTA members ...

Real estate assets hit $316bn

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
... In the global ranking of fund managers by Asia Pacific real estate AUM, Charter Hall and Goodman Group ranked fifth and sixth respectively. CapitaLand maintained its top spot, with $139.8 billion allocated to real estate in Asia Pacific, closely followed ...

VIC, TAS lead Australia: CommSec

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... finance and equipment investment. NSW slipped to fourth place, with South Australia and Queensland sitting in fifth and sixth position respectively. Western Australia remains in seventh position, ahead of Northern Territory. CommSec chief economist Craig ...

Chief economist update: Turns out Brexit was heaven

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... lockdown measures to try and contain the spread of the infection. Latest stats by worldometers.info put the UK with the sixth highest number of infected cases on the planet - 138,078 (as at April 23) - and the fifth in terms of the death count - 18,738 ...

Chief economist update: Australians not confident enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2020
... June last year. It's the same for consumers with pessimists outnumbering optimists (below 100 index points) for the sixth straight month in January. Pessimistic consumers will continue to save rather than spend, weakening business confidence as sales ...