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3PD wins distribution partnership

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2021
... regain its spot as the fastest-growing economy in the world soon aided by catalysts like potential shift of global supply chains to India as they look to diversify their supplier countries, sharp cut in corporate tax rate (now amongst the lowest in the ...

Rest launches low-cost SRI option

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... cash. When it comes to equities, Rest has excluded companies involved in labour and human rights abuses, unethical supply chains, fossil fuels, animal cruelty, gender discrimination, tobacco, gambling, palm oil, controversial weaponry, or have a recent ...

Chief economist update: Hot flashes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021
... Markit's findings on the region's inflation: "The surge in demand for manufactured goods is meanwhile stretching supply chains to an unprecedented extent, in turn pushing costs up at the fastest rate for a decade. These cost pressures will likely ...

Chief economist update: Nikkei not so fine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2021
... by the breakdown in the negative correlation between the US$/Â¥ exchange rate and the Nikkei. The disruption of supply chains and closure of international borders brought on by the pandemic, compounded by the more expensive yen, should put downward ...

Waste key to economic recovery: CSIRO

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2021
... and ever-more-unacceptable ways of dealing with waste," Schandl said. "The global pandemic has disrupted global supply chains which challenges Australia to be self-sufficient with sovereign manufacturing capability."

Chief economist update: Iron ore is hot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
... response would again bring the new outbreak under control just as it did in 2020. This, along with the still disrupted supply chains in still highly infected iron ore exporters - namely, Brazil and South Africa - augurs well for iron ore prices going ...

Chief economist update: China on my mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021
... coronavirus pandemic that witnessed a virtual freezing of domestic and international activity - due to disruptions in supply chains, social restrictions, business and school lockdowns and cross-border closures. The benchmark index rallied by 50.1% after ...

Pan-Asian equities to perform well: Longlead

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
... sustainability and support productivity. "The importance of this for Asian equities in 2021 is that Asia is central to the supply chains in each of these industries."

Super fund joins climate initiative

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
... industry fund, a mining company and a professional services firm have joined an initiative to tackle emissions in supply chains by 2050. Cbus, Fortescue Metal Group and Aurecon have signed on to the Australian Industry Energy Transitions Initiative (ETI) ...

Poor progress on human rights revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2020
... performing industries. The sector was found to have failed to manage or even adequately track human rights risks in supply chains. Starbucks and Phillips were among the 66 companies out of the 230 to make no improvement on last year's scores. Meanwhile ...