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Hostplus introduces retirement bonus payments

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2025
Hostplus has introduced retirement bonus payments when members transition into the pension phase. From today, members who meet the eligibility criteria will receive an additional top-up to their account when they transfer from a Hostplus accumulation ...

Australia a top destination for international investment: QIC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2024
... advanced economy. "Currently, our trend employment growth rate of 1.9% is more than twice that of the global average and US rates of 0.8%. This supports a strong trend growth rate in Australian GDP, which is currently estimated to be 2.3%, compared to ...

Chief economist update: Vaccine optimism sparks AUD resurgence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
... announced a shift into a lower for longer strategy - suggesting that Australian interest rates would be at a premium over US rates going forward and enticing investors to buy the Aussie dollar to avail of the premium. On August 27 at the Hole, the US ...

Chief economist update: AUD on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... The Fed's shift into a lower for longer strategy suggests that Australian interest rates would be at a premium over US rates going forward, enticing investors to buy A$ to avail of the premium. This flows from the Fed's new-found tolerance for ...

Gold lifts as US, Iran tensions escalate

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
... Management lead portfolio manager Matthew Haupt told Financial Standard that a surge in gold prices has been driven by falling US rates and increased volatility. "The assassination has increased perceived global risks. With a slowly recovering world ...

Chief economist update: Draining the swamp

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2018
... speculations of a more aggressive Fed. With most other developed central banks' interest rates still on hold, rising US rates would raise the US dollar's yield premium, attracting more funds inflow into America. The flipside, of course, is depreciation ...

Insto mandate seeds Aviva fund launch

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... for emerging market and local currency debt. But there are flaws. "One is that it's not necessarily true that rising US rates is going to be dollar positive because I think that one of the reasons rates are going up is because there's concern about Trump's ...

Don't follow consensus: Baur

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
... level of 10-year US Treasury yields - we think somewhere between three and 3.5% on treasury bonds. And the signal for US rates to the next step upward will be the rising rates and a little more inflation in Japan and central banks," Baur explained. Baur ...

ING DIRECT pays up for "no fees" super marketing

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016
ING DIRECT is returning a total of $5 million to members of its superannuation fund, Living Super, and will no longer promote the product as having "no fee" after the financial services regulator raised concerns about how fees on its cash option were ...

Super insurance premiums rise again

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
Insurance premiums within superannuation have increased again across the market resulting in reduced value for members, according to the latest research report from Rainmaker. On average, premium rates for the standard Death and TPD cover increased ...
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