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Chief economist update: Cheaper prices not a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... free child care (-95.0 per cent), a significant fall in the price of automotive fuel (-19.3 per cent) and a fall in pre-school and primary education (-16.2 per cent), with free pre-school being provided in NSW, Victoria and Queensland... Excluding these ...

Australian Unity names chief executive

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
... served as a director on the board of JBWere, as well as a member of the advisory board of Sydney University's Business School. Prior to these directorial positions, she worked in several senior roles at NAB, including the general manager of fixed income ...

Giselle Roux joins Melbourne boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
The former chief investment officer of Escala Partners and JBWere has joined a Melbourne boutique in an investment advisory role. Roux left Escala in August 2019 after six years with the firm, following US-based Focus Financial Partners taking a stake ...

Bennelong swoops on LIC trading at discount

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
... director and board member at risk management fintech LumRisk, Raymond Da Silva Rosa, a professor of finance at UWA Business School and Andrew Reeve-Parker, who is a representative, director and responsible manager of NW Advice Pty Ltd, according to AEG's ...

Financial institution charged over Epstein scandal

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... to have been the legal expenses of Epstein and his co-conspirators; payments to Russian models, payments for women's school tuition, hotel and rent expenses, and (consistent with public allegations of prior wrongdoing) payments directly to numerous ...

Land tax, not stamp duty: Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
A draft report into reforming GST and reducing inefficient taxes has reignited calls for the scrapping of stamp duty when buying or selling a home, to be replaced by a broad-based land tax. The NSW Review of Federal Financial Relations draft report ...

At least $70bn more in stimulus needed: Grattan

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... removed ($10 billion to $15 billion), adding a catch-up loading for schools to provide intensive tuition for students hurt by school shutdowns ($1.2 billion). Grattan's permanent solutions recommendations will cost $7 billion in 2020-21 and $14 billion ...

COVID-19 brings trading boom

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
New data shows sharemarket engagement has ticked up since the COVID-19 pandemic set in, as more Australians work from home. Latest nabTrade data reveals applications to the share trading platform increased 360% over the last quarter, with trading volumes ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 takes second crack at China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
Just when we thought that life was slowly returning to normal, reports out of Beijing have turned into reality what many feared - a second wave. While all our uncles and their dogs blamed China for the "bother" the world finds itself in, its policy ...

Impact investing set to skyrocket: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... their money to deliver positive impact and avoid harm," O'Connor said. Conducted by the Deakin University Business School and supported by AMP Capital and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the report charts the composition, growth ...