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PIMCO lowers GDP growth rate

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 JAN 2022
Australia, together with other rich countries, can expect economic activity to slow down in 2022 as coronavirus outbreaks continue to put a spanner in the works. Fund manager PIMCO has downgraded its developed markets outlook for countries that also ...

Economic recap: Week to December 10

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2021
... equity markets." Punctuated by the roll-out of vaccines towards the dying days of 2020. All looked swell... until the coronavirus variant that was first spotted in the UK and in South Africa. "It's reportedly less deadly but more infectious and has ...

Economic recap: Week to December 3

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2021
Australians all, let us rejoice... for despite the Delta-induced lockdowns in the September quarter, the domestic economy shrank by much less than most of us were expecting. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) National Accounts report shows ...

Economic recap: Week to November 26

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2021
... vaccinations and/or learning to live with Delta - comes a new kid in town. And it's name is Omicron. The discovery of this coronavirus variant - first detected in South Africa - pushed back financial markets' interest rate hike expectations that were ...

COVID-19 relief for SMSFs may require specialist input

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2021
Extended government relief measures highlight the need for SMSF specialist advice, says SMSF Association chief executive. SMSF Association chief executive John Maroney has commented on the need for SMSF specialist advice in the wake of extended COVID-19 ...

Economic recap: Week to October 29

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2021
By most accounts, Jacinda Ardern's island has succeeded in combatting the coronavirus pandemic. As at October 26, worldometer.com data showed that New Zealand ranked among one of the countries in the world with the lowest case of COVID-19 infections ...

ESG investing 2.0 emerges

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2021
... fire damage, followed by some of the worst floods we've seen in some time," she said. Another trigger was the coronavirus pandemic, which brings up many ESG issues like equal access to healthcare and vaccinations, and worker safety. Overseas, China ...

ATO will not pursue erroneous JobKeeper payments

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2021
... a wage subsidy introduced by the federal government for businesses that struggled financially at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. The Senate Economics Legislation Committee's Inquiry into the Coronavirus Economic Response Package Amendment ...

Economic recap: Week to September 3

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2021
... hard lockdowns there. NSW recorded 1288 new cases of infections (the biggest daily increase in infections since the coronavirus outbreak, so far) and VIC 176 new infections (also the highest, so far) on the same day the "great" economic growth data was ...

Cracking the data science code

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2021
... to enhance the exisiting process and another approach is dealing with new situations that are very difficult." The coronavirus pandemic is a good example. Hlavaty said machine learning has been able to build processes and models dynamically that rebalance ...