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Chief economist update: A prelude to an RBA cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
... 2018 and then pushed further back to 2019. The history of the RBA's policy movements back this up. The second longest stretch of steady interest rates is the 18-month period between August 2013 and January 2015 with the cash rate frozen at 2.5% before ...

Chief economist update: Fed will go hiking in June

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2018
... "soon". Overlay this with the Fed's early 2018 forward guidance for three rate hikes this year and it wouldn't be a stretch to conclude that come the next FOMC meeting on 12-13 June, the fed funds rate would be 25 basis points higher from 1.5%-1.75% ...

Poor SoAs hindering advice process

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
There is growing concern that a lack of clear and consistent templates for Statement of Advice documents is potentially causing financial advice clients to sign off on advice they don't actually understand. Paraplanning services provider YTML has seen ...

Chief economist update: Onwards and downwards to a recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2018
... period. Another quarter of negative GDP growth would bring it back into a technical recession. Apart from ending the longest stretch of quarterly economic expansions since 1989 - 12 straight quarters of growth between the June 1986 quarter and the March ...

What the 2018 Budget means for you

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
More changes to Australia's $2.6 trillion superannuation system, additional funding to the nation's financial services regulators, personal tax cuts and additional pensioner benefits are the major talking points of Budget 2018. The 2018 Budget is arguably ...

Flinders fund offers insto rates for retail investors on HUB24

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
Boutique fund manager Flinders Investment Partners is offering retail investors investment intellectual property (IP) from its Flinders Emerging Companies Fund at about 60% less than retail rates. The slashed retail rates, which are at par with institutional ...

Spotlight on financial elder abuse

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018
While financial advisers are among those best placed to identify instances of financial elder abuse, cases are continually slipping under the radar as it becomes increasingly difficult to recognise. Speaking at the Challenger Financial Standard Technical ...

New super fund joins forces with GBST

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... a compelling new product offer to market is an exciting and challenging opportunity." Superestate has been willing to stretch the boundaries of "conventional thinking and foresee what the next generation of a competitive superannuation investment market ...

Chief economist update: The yen's on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
... because despite the slowdown in fourth quarter GDP growth, it marked the eight straight quarter of expansion - the longest stretch since the 1980s. The details of the National Accounts suggest that this would continue. Japanese household consumption ...

Interest rates on ice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2017
... interest rate unchanged since it took it down to a record low of 1.5% in August last year. This is more than the 12-month stretch of steady rates (at 2%) between May 2015 and April 2016 but it's looking like it'll surpass the August 2013 to January 2015 ...