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Investment strategies need to change: GSFM

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... holding was put to work in early April "We have been around 85-90% invested since April. We based this on what the US Federal Reserve did," Griffin said. There were many solvency concerns at the time, but the Fed took that off the table, so we put the ...

What to expect from the Retirement Income Review

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
... transparency, it is critical this report is immediately released to the public so its findings can be tested and verified. Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg announced a review into Australia's retirement income system in September 2019 which was ...

Value to be found in childcare stocks

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
... child's family," James said. "In addition, childcare centres nationally will receive Transition Payments from the federal government until October 4, which account to around 25% of normal revenue. We expect these measures will support the childcare ...

Chief economist update: Australian outlook under COVID-19

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
... pandemic has instead, in a few short months, turned it redder than red. Might as well because the Prime Minister and the Federal Treasurer and the Finance Minister aren't allowed to shake hands or backslap one another due to social distancing restrictions. ...

Pension funds apply pressure on climate change

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2020
... in addition to the lives and livelihoods of tens of millions of people across the country." The message was sent to the Federal Reserve, Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ...

Domestic violence super reforms stall

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2020
Representatives from industry super and a legal body have called on the Federal Government to deliver on a promised scheme that would have stopped domestic violence perpetrators from hiding their super assets from their spouses. Women's Legal Service ...

ASIC will not appeal wagyu and shiraz decision

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2020
... appeal to the High Court's rejection ofits case against Westpac for alleged responsible lending breaches. ASIC commenced federal court proceedings against Westpac in 2017 alleging that between December 2011 and March 2015 the bank failed to properly ...

No such thing as a free lunch: Lowe

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... the Anika Foundation, Lowe stressed that while the subject of the RBA using its balance sheet to create money for the federal government comes up a lot, it is not an option the bank will ever take. Lowe said he has also been questioned as to why the ...

12 charged in $17m fraud

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... A joint-agency investigation into an elaborate $17 million fraud has resulted in charges against 12 people. Australian Federal Police (AFP) investigators executed search warrants at 10 locations across Sydney, nine in south-east Queensland and two in ...

Chief economist update: The next generation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... first US Treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson in that year [1790]" where "the US federal government assumed all the debt incurred by the US states during the War of Independence, laying the foundation for a strong ...