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Chief economist update: The UK's going OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
... meeting, the economic outlook remains uncertain and depends on the "evolution of the pandemic". Cases of infection from the Indian variant are rising in the country and threatens the planned removal of all restrictions on June 21 this year.

Chief economist update: Victoria's victory against the virus voided

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2021
... infectious variant with contact tracers identifying 15,000 primary and secondary contacts who may have been exposed to the 'Indian variant" in more than 100 exposure sites to date. Given these, there remains the possibility of the lockdown being ...

Chief economist: Of capital gains taxes, COVID-19 and climate change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
... income, means that federal tax rates for wealthy investors could be as high as 43.4%." This one from Factset on COVID-19: "Indian COVID cases now a serious concern - it broke a one-day new cases record of 315,000 Wednesday and shows no sign of abating. ...

Chief economist update: Prepare for lift off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2021
... downgrade from its October forecasts, the IMF now sees Chinese GDP jumping by 8.1% in 2021 and 5.6% in 2022. It expects the Indian economy to recover from an 8.0% contraction in 2020 to 11.5% (from 10.3%) in 2021 and 6.8% (from 8.8%) in 2022. However ...

Australia most active region in Q2: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... region in the second quarter, with particularly high interest in global all cap core strategies from Japanese, Australian, Indian, Singaporean and South Korean investors. Global all cap growth strategies also experienced similar interest, but with the ...

Australian Ethical divests Mercer parent company

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
... proposals from alternative insurance brokers." Palmer noted the divestment comes due to Marsh & McLennan's ties to Indian mining conglomerate Adani, currently in the process of developing a thermal coalmine in Queensland's Galilee Basin. "We ...

Chief economist update: Premature easing will cost more lives, more rupiahs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
... of the first movers in the fight against containing the spread of infection from the coronavirus pandemic. On March 24, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered one of the strictest lockdowns of any country in the world, warning that: "If we don't ...

A case for flexible asset allocation: First Sentier

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... their emerging counterparts. "Within that macro view, at the time of writing we have preferences for Canadian, Swiss and Indian equities, while we have a view to be underweight to countries such as Italy, Spain and the US," Somaia said. "These views ...

Pension pots around the world during COVID-19

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... or 75% of their savings on March 26. More than 600,000 people applied for the withdrawals in the first 13 days, and the Indian government had paid out about INR 280 Crores (A$58 million) across 137,000 claims as at April 1, according to reporting from ...

CalPERS investment lead targeted by Congressman

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
A US congressman has called for the chief investment officer of America's largest pension fund to be fired. In a series of tweets and interviews, Indiana Congressman Jim Banks has urged for the sacking of CalPERS chief investment officer Yu Ben Meng ...