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Adelaide fund manager adds to board

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
An Adelaide fund manager has added a former federal treasury analyst to its board. Kellie Stocker has joined the Angas Securities board as a non-executive director. Stocker has previously worked a legal and economic consultant in the federal treasury ...

Industry fund adds to board

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... September 30 and comes as Matthew Bourke leaves the board. Hallam has held senior executive positions at the Federal Treasury, the National Office of Local Government and city councils of Esk Shire and Townsville. He was also a director for Queensland ...

Chief economist update: Escape from Victoria

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020
... again, for those who forgot, the JobKeeper programme's blowout to A$102.2 billion is still less than what the Federal Treasury allotted to its war against the coronavirus pandemic, which was originally estimated at A$130 billion. The government (and ...

Chief economist update: The RBA's lullaby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2020
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) delivered what every rational individual expected it to. At the conclusion of its August 4 meeting, the board of the Australian central bank kept monetary policy settings unchanged - the official cash rate at a historic ...

Chief economist update: Australian outlook under COVID-19

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
... the coronavirus - its death or spread - that will dictate what happens next. This, as much, is not lost on the Federal Treasury, who said: "The outlook for both the global and domestic economies remains highly uncertain. The evolution of the public health ...

Chief economist update: Lower iron ore a boon to the Aussie budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2019
... prices go directly impacts the domestic economy and the budget. In the Budget Papers 2019-20, the Australian Federal Treasury assumed iron ore prices to fall to US$55/tonne this year and the next and at the same time provided a sensitivity analysis that ...

Association policy lead to join Treasury

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2019
The head of policy at a major industry association has taken a new role with Federal Treasury. Jordan George has been the head of policy at the SMSF Association for seven and a half years. The SMSFA confirmed to Financial Standard that George will step ...

Downsizer contributions skyrocket

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
... contribution was introduced one year ago. More than 4200 individuals have used the downsizer measure, according to Federal Treasury figures. Older Australians living in New South Wales (31%), Victoria (26%) and Queensland (24%) have been fully embracing ...

Chief economist update: As luck would have it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018
... contrary to RBA expectations. There were no price targets in the RBA minutes but perhaps, it's at or close to the Federal Treasury's US$55/tonne projected in the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) report for 2017-18, released in December last ...

BlackRock veteran joins Grant Samuel

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
... roles, executive vice president, head of fixed income. Early in his career, Miller was a research officer for the Federal Treasury and also served as private secretary to then Prime Minister Paul Keating. "Steve brings over 30 years' experience in international ...