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More victims of financial crime in APAC: Reuters

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... Reuters companies also spent an average of 3.6% of turnover on preventing financial crime in their operations. In terms of a dollar figure, the research found that APAC companies suffered losses amounting to USD$166 billion, compared with USD$1.45 trillion ...

Chief economist update: Italy and Spain an emerging ECB problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... month of 2018, the benchmark index's performance to date is down to a mere 0.3% as the euro strengthened versus the US dollar. The euro currency's recent reversal - down to US$1.1655 from US$1.2503 in January - should help underpin share market ...

Chief economist update: A US dollar story

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018
The times, they are a-changin'. After reaching a peak of 103.01 on the 23 December 2016, the Bloomberg US dollar index began its long descent before hitting a three-year low of 89.19 in February this year - a 13.4% depreciation. The US dollar has ...

Pension fund CIO departs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
... greatly reduced the cost and complexity of the investment portfolio and increased transparency around fees." "Because every dollar we save goes back into the fund, our members will directly benefit from those cost savings for years to come. Ted has always ...

Personal tax cuts lead the Budget

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... 32.5% and the $90,000 threshold will be raised again to $120,000, preventing 1.8 million Australians paying 37 cents in the dollar," Morrison said. The budget also wants all investors who are receiving franked dividends to keep their tax refunds, in ...

Labor responds to 'unfair' Budget

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... "completely reckless." In his speech, Morrison said Australians earning more than $41,000 will only pay 32.5 cents in the dollar all the way up to the top marginal tax rate threshold, which will be adjusted to $200,000, to account for inflation and expected ...

Three AMP directors step down

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
Three non-executive directors have chosen to resign from AMP's board. While Patty Akopiantz will serve until the end of the year, Vanessa Wallace and Holly Kramer will step down from the board ahead of AMP's annual general meeting. Wallace will also ...

Chief economist update: Crying for Argentina

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2018
... Argentine peso and by extension, put downward pressure on inflation. The country's currency has fallen by 13.7% against the US dollar this year to date, on top of its 15.9% depreciation in 2017. Consumer price inflation accelerated to 25.6% in the year ...

Super fund launches renewable energy investment option

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
... available from investment in large scale renewable energy generators. New Yorkers united this year to push for multi-billion dollar pension funds to divest fossil fuels, 350.org founder Bill McKibben said. "This happened because ordinary people decided ...

Chief economist update: A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
"My fellow Australians, ask not what your country can do for the Australian dollar, ask what the Australian dollar can do for your country." That's me bastardising John F. Kennedy's inaugural address as the 35th US President back in 1961 (before I was ...