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Australian billionaires double fortunes during pandemic: Oxfam

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2022
... their own profit," Morgain said. The report also notes the significance of the world's two largest economies, the US and China, starting to consider policies that reduce inequality, including by imposing higher tax rates on the rich and acting against ...

How to invest in China: Capital Group

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JAN 2022
China's slowing economy may have investors on edge as we ease into 2022, but there's still plenty of opportunities - so long as you know where to look, Capital Group says. Providing an investment outlook for 2022, Capital Group said investors must do ...

FIRB reappoints Irvine as chair

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2021
... Irvine as the chair of the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) for a further two-year period. The former ambassador to China and high commissioner to Papua New Guinea was first appointed to the FIRB as a member in 2015 and subsequently appointed chair ...

Economic recap: Week to December 10

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2021
... more infectious and has already triggered renewed lockdowns in Europe and Asia and the new strain has now circled back to China, that in turn, puts a question mark on whether or not a new vaccine would need to be developed against the new strain." Replace ...

Super funds lambasted over nuclear holdings

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021
... nuclear weapons. The companies the research refers to include Aerojet Rocketdyne, Airbus, BAE Systems, Bechtel, Boeing, China National Nuclear Corporation, Honeywell International, Leidos, Safran and Thales. Of the funds named in the report, some only ...

Blackstone invests $925m for stake in Grosvenor Place

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2021
... debt. The 50% stake in Grosvenor Place initially came to market in 2020, and in November that year, Dexus announced that China Investment Corporation (CIC) had conditionally agreed to the stake. When the deal did not settle, reports began to surface ...

HSBC AM names regional chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2021
... role of regional chief executive for Asia Pacific and Hong Kong on November 8. Ho finishes up as Fidelity International China president after nearly two years in the post. Prior to that, she was the managing director of Asia ex-Japan. She has been with ...

Joining the 1% around the world: Analysis

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
... months to join the country's wealthiest 1%, while Chinese workers would need more than 101 years in the workforce to join China's 1%. In a stark illustration of wealth inequality around the world, money.co.uk (a UK-based comparison site) has analysed ...

Scariest themes for investors revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2021
... managers, chief executives and chief financial officers across Australia and New Zealand are most concerned about. Stagflation, China's slowdown and a global energy crunch were top of mind for over 1500 surveyed while attending Citi's 13th annual Australia ...

ESG investing 2.0 emerges

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2021
... pandemic, which brings up many ESG issues like equal access to healthcare and vaccinations, and worker safety. Overseas, China, Japan and South Korea made a commitment to reduce emissions in late 2020, while the US re-signed the Paris Agreement last ...