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Chief economist update: The virus, the vaccine and Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
... across the US. These include mask mandates, curfews, limits on the amount of people/households that can gather indoors, school closures and bans on indoor dining". We already know and experienced what happens to social and business activities when restrictions ...

Household capital remains key: RIR

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
... responsible, long-term solution to allow current retirees to boost their retirement funding." Associate professor in the School of Economics, Finance and Marketing at RMIT, Stuart Thomas, said despite the high rate of home ownership for many, superannuation ...

SEC chair to depart

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2020
... financial law firm Sullivan & Cromwell and a lecturer in law and adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Clayton said working alongside the women and men of the SEC has been the highlight of his career. "The US capital markets ...

APRA eases hard caps in revamped executive pay

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
... made three recommendations on the subject. What qualifies as "material" is not defined in the report, said Swinburne Law School senior lecturer Helen Bird. "It was a big step to go down the prescribed cap path. It was the first time it was proposed," ...

Super funds bullish on hiring

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2020
... result of staff working from home and home schooling, their productivity was significantly reduced. Now with kids back at school, working parents' productivity has been freed up and we have seen several large projects commencing or ramping back up." ...

Fresh fundies outperform

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... shared responsibility with Quinn for the investment management process. They both attended the same Catholic secondary school in Essendon West, Melbourne. Speaking to Financial Standard, Moors said the fund had seen a lift in inflows over the COVID period ...

State Super appoints academic oversight body

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... research increases." Kollo has been appointed as inaugural chair of the AOB. He gained his PhD in Finance from the London School of Economics and has extensive industry experience in the application of quantitative statistical methods at Blackrock, Fidelity ...

Rest appoints three investment specialists

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... the Rest board investment committee effective 1 September 2020. Kapur is a professor of practice with the Monash Business School, a member of the School Executive Committee and concurrently director of the Monash Centre for Financial Studies. He has ...

Frydenberg focusses on jobs, jobs, jobs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
The government estimates that in 2020-2021 $227.5 billion will be spent on social security and welfare - up 15.4% in real terms from the $196 billion spend last year. The social security spending is largely in response to the COVID-19 crisis, with the ...

ASX director retires

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... the Securities Exchange Guarantee Corporation and Allens, as well as the non-executive chair of the St Andrews Cathedral School Foundation. Previously, Warne served as chair of Tcorp, where he worked for more than eight years. He has also previously ...