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Outsourcing is the future: Northern Trust

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2022
... providers, who can carry far more excess capacity, and therefore can staff for when you've got a peak in demand or if - heaven forbid - there's another pandemic, you can rely on your scale provider to provide for that on a variable cost. "I think ...

Economic recap: Week to December 3

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2021
... lifting employment and by extrapolation, consumer spending, sales, profits, investment... It would have been a highway to heaven - a clean run to stronger growth, if you will - had the Omicron variant reared not its ugly head. Already, Australia and ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore is the glue that binds China and Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... operational constraints as a result of the pandemic and a dam disaster two years ago". What's not so good for Brazil is heaven sent for Australia. Despite the escalation of diplomatic and trade tensions between Beijing and Canberra, China cannot ...

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 ...

Chief economist update: A tale of two quarters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
... times... it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way..." -- 'A Tale of Two Cities' A little tinkering with the first paragraph ...

Chief economist update: Turns out Brexit was heaven

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
Bad timing it may be but, it is what it is. The coronavirus pandemic struck just when the dark clouds of Brexit uncertainty lifted over the United Kingdom. For the best part of three years, Brexit was on every Brits mind - dampening business investment ...

Chief economist update: S&P raises Duterte ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2019
... rating the country has received - as well as its outlook from "stable" to "positive" is like another dole-up of manna from heaven for Duterte's administration and those wannabe senators and congressmen seeking seats under his banner. According to ...

Reforming bank culture rests on regulators: Silk

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019
... that's the regulators." But is Silk confident that the regulators are up for the task? "Not on past performance," he said. "Heaven help us if they don't step up to the plate now." Silk added he was not confident the industry is able to impose good behaviour ...

Chief economist update: Heaven can wait but the BOE couldn't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
"The mistake is to always wait, wait, wait until you have perfect certainty." - Bank of England Governor Mark Carney The Bank of England (BOE) finally went ahead and did it. It lifted the Bank Rate by 25 basis points to 0.75% at the conclusion of its ...

Government opens consultation for amended CCIV regime

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
The Federal Government opened consultation to industry stakeholders for the first tranche of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle) Bill 2018. In August 2017, the Government called for initial consultation on the CCIV ...
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