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Macquarie pledges $50m to anniversary

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
Macquarie Group is making a $50 million philanthropic commitment to mark its 50th anniversary in 2019. The Australian financial services giant said the Macquarie 50th Anniversary Award would initiate or build on bold ideas to address social need. The ...

Industry super fund commits to green bonds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2018
An $11 billion industry superannuation fund is a founding signatory to the Green Bond Pledge. Local Government Super (LGS), the industry fund for NSW local government employees joined the US state treasuries of California, New Mexico and Rhode Island ...

Chief economist update: Japan's sun shines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2018
Japan's economy grew 0.7% in the June quarter after contracting 0.2% in the March quarter. This is stronger than the Cabinet Office's preliminary estimate of 0.5% and is the fastest growth rate since the first quarter of last year (0.7%). This ...

Chief economist update: Turkey's roasted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
... of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's erroneous economic thinking - that high interest rates cause inflation - and his pledge to take greater of monetary policy if he wins re-election at the June 24 poll. He was re-elected, and dive deeper the lira ...

Industry fund signs stewardship code

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2018
... not, why not' basis, in addition to publishing a stewardship statement. Industry funds AustralianSuper and HESTA made the pledge after the code was launched at ACSI's annual conference earlier this year, with AustralianSuper chief executive and ACSI ...

Chief economist update: Chinese dragon now a bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? If we're talking about the US and China, it appears that the answer is that the immovable object (China) drops. China's Shanghai Composite index dropped to 2844.51 points from ...

Chief economist update: Erdogan's Turkey is cooked

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
... corrected. Erdogan's belief that high interest rates cause inflation is a worry in itself but worry more about his pledge to take greater control of monetary policy if he wins re-election at the June 24 poll. Sure, his low interest rate policy has ...

ING ramps up wholesale lending business

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
ING Australia increased its wholesale lending by 24% over the previous year, the bank's 2017 results show. Clients of ING's wholesale banking loans include the Sydney Metro Northwest, New Royal Adelaide Hospital, and Queensland's Clare Solar Farm. "We ...

Super industry wants tougher insurance code

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
... reputation damage for the superannuation industry," Rowell told the committee. As a baseline, super funds endorsing the code pledge to contact members six months after the last contribution is made to combat account balance erosion. After 13 months of ...

Pre-Christmas delivery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 DEC 2017
... goods and move our people faster and safer". This, along with the tax cuts, would go a long way into making his campaign pledge to grow the economy by 4% per annum, "I actually think we can go higher than 4 percent. I think you can go to 5 percent or ...