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Chief economist update: Water, water everywhere and not a fish to catch

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2020
... closures - for fear of getting the infection or spreading the infection - negate these. Have money, can't travel... and nothing to buy! But just as the world overcame other crises in the past - GFC, Asian financial crisis, Japan's deflation in ...

Chief economist update: Australian recession here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2020
... monetary and fiscal authorities. Citizens will have more money that they couldn't spend on and if they could, there's nothing to buy because of disruptions to the supply chain. The drought and bushfires already raised the likelihood of a negative ...

Sunsuper Labor donations rile Bragg

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
... its kind for the fund - and asked Rowell how APRA responds to political donations made by super funds. "Quite simply, nothing. APRA's role is not to review individual items of fund expenditure, and the amount of $11,000 in the context of a $60 billion ...

Westpac not evacuated, misinformation abounds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
... reported the suspected cases had forced an evacuation. An internal email to Westpac staff, seen by Financial Standard, said nothing about an evacuation. Rather, suspected cases of COVID-19 relating to people who had recently travelled overseas were self-isolating ...

Equities not that expensive: Hamish Douglass

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... this negative interest rate world, you put your money into the bank and once it's in the bank, you get paid absolutely nothing on your money - and when you go to reach for your money to take it out again, you have less in the bank then you put in," Douglass ...

Chief economist update: A crisis of supply, demand and confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020
... problem. Lower interest rates could theoretically ramp up demand but increased demand amounts to zilch if there's nothing to buy. But it's slowly becoming apparent that there's not only a supply problem but a demand problem as well. The panic ...

SG amnesty bill finally passes

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... of the two committee's the bill was sent to raised the issue, leading the government to believe Labor's amendment was nothing more than a "bad faith attempt to scuttle a very good bill". "It would have been a legislative and regulatory quagmire. Furthermore ...

Consumers trust Google over advisers: NobleOak

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... advice has diminished since the Royal Commission," NobleOak said. "The majority of respondents (47%) said they would pay nothing for a financial adviser, while 29% said they would not spend more than $100. This demonstrates that respondents see less ...

Wells Fargo coughs up $4.5 billion

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
... there's still more work we must do to rebuild the trust we lost. "We are committing all necessary resources to ensure that nothing like this happens again, while also driving Wells Fargo forward." Since 2016, Wells Fargo has made several significant ...

SMSFs interrupted in 2019: SuperConcepts

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
... there was a property market crash," Burgess said. "And the ATO is sitting on all this data about SMSFs and they've done nothing with it." Bring-forward arrangements were highlighted by Burgess as something that requires clarification. While the legislation ...