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Big banks, super funds join forces for sustainability

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2019
... Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, while underpinning economic stability and prosperity for Australia." Simon O'Connor, chief executive of the Responsible Investment Association Australia will also co-chair. "Issues ...

Chief economist update: Time to pig out on China shares?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
The "Year of the Pig" is turning out to be what it signifies - prosperity, good fortune and success. This is no truer than from the land the 12 animal signs of the lunar calendar zodiac originated - China. This is against consensus expectations that ...

SMSFA turns up the heat on franking debate

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2019
... sector, Morrison said. Equating the policy to theft, he said: "We have a fight on our hands to protect SMSFs and your prosperity. Labor's $45 billion retiree tax will hit hard-working Australian retirees who have done the right thing and saves for ...

Corporates can help solve retirement issue: BlackRock

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... greater responsibility to help employees navigate retirement, highlighting it as a key challenge to the world's future prosperity. In his annual letter to the chief executives of companies backed by BlackRock, Fink said retirement is an area where organisations ...

Advice is the business to be in: Salt

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
... alongside a period of sustained economic and population growth. "When was the last time Australia had 25 years of unbroken prosperity?" Salt asked. "That'd be 1860 to 1890. "You are living in a one in one hundred year boom," he said. According to Salt ...

Chief economist update: A new currency is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
... mean that five zeros would be cut from pre-existing levels. Maduro's "programme for recovery, growth and economic prosperity" also includes other measures on financial reforms, lifting the value-added tax (VAT) rate from 12% to 18% and ending some ...

Chief economist update: Small business is big business

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2018
"I want to thank all of you, the small business owners, who are the engine of American prosperity. And, you know, I've been saying it for a long time, but you really are. You look at even the stats and you look at the numbers. You look at the taxes ...

First on the block: CBA to develop blockchain bond

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2018
... to continue to harness innovation for the benefit of markets and our mission of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity," Oteh said. "Our sincere appreciation to our pioneer blockchain bond investors, who are partnering with us on this transaction ...

French giant intensifies action on global warming

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2017
... climate change. And we must meet these challenges without denying developing countries the right to deliver economic prosperity to their own people," Bonnafe said. "Together we must take determined action to reach the two degree target which governments ...

NAB collaborates on responsible investment bond

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2017
... measure impact and value for institutional investors, focusing on three key factors of sustainable development; economic prosperity, social inclusion and environmental sustainability. Through this move ACU becomes the first Australian issuer and the ...