Evidentia Group bolsters investment capability with appointment of Chief Investment Strategist Gareth Aird

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Managed Accounts Market Leader – Evidentia Group is pleased to announce the appointment of Gareth Aird as Chief Investment Strategist, supporting the firm’s ongoing commitment to deliver an exceptional investment

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State and Territory perspective

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Most economic commentary is focussed at the national level. This Commonwealth Bank report digs below the headline numbers and compares outcomes across Australia’s States and Territories. The quarterly report analyses

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Australia clocked 24million people in the March quarter

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Australia’s population rose by 0.4% over QI and annual growth held steady at 1.4%. Australia’s population is estimated to be 24.1million as at March 2016. Net migration continues to be

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Public capital investment – more bark than bite?

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Public investment has been trending down as a share of GDP since mid‑2010. But analysis of the 2016/17 State and Federal Budgets shows that public sector investment is likely to

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A stronger employment report than the headline numbers imply

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Yesterday’s 7.9k lift in jobs was a touch lower than market expectations which were centred on a lift of 10.0k (CBA(f) +5k). The headline numbers suggest the report was a soft

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Why is non‑mining business investment so weak and what is the outlook?

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A lift in non‑mining investment remains the missing ingredient in the Australian economic growth transition story. Some of the cyclical drivers of business investment have moved in a direction that

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State and territory perspective

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Most economic commentary is focussed at the national level. This report digs below the headline numbers and compares outcomes across Australia’s States and Territories. CBA Economics analyses how the states and

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RBA’s Kent on the labour market

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Kent reiterates the RBA’s view that the unemployment rate should be “little changed from recent levels over the next 18 months”. The labour market has been “adjusting more smoothly over

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Jobs figures – employment falls in April

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Labour Force – April 2015 Employment fell by by a small 2.9k in April following an upwardly revised 48.1k lift in March (previously reported as +37.7k). The fall in employment

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CBA Economics: State and Territory Perspectives

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Most economic commentary is focussed on the national outcome. The State and Territory Perspectives report digs below the surface and compares outcomes across various regions and covers the macroeconomic trends in

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