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Could the anti-woke movement come to Australia?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2023
... three letters that won't save the planet". Then, in March, US President Joe Biden used his first veto to fight a Republican proposal to prevent pension fund managers from basing investment decisions on factors like climate change. This month, Florida ...

US default risk: Are credit default swaps signalling trouble?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2023
... maturing US Treasury bills. Further, he noted that the US debt ceiling has been raised 78 times since 1960, under both Republican and Democratic presidents. Still, Abad acknowledged the growing market concerns due to intense political partisanship. "Today's ...

ESG impacts on US pension funds tested

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2023
... theory that "that Democrat-aligned 'blue' states may be more likely to accept ESG investment principles, in contrast to Republican-aligned 'red' states that may be more likely to reject such ESG investment strategies." Currently, there are more than ...

Goldman Sachs charged over ESG failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022
... funds that they govern. In October, the state of Missouri pulled approximately US$500 million from BlackRock, with Republican State Treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick announcing that the Missouri State Employees' Retirement System (MOSERS) has sold all ...

BlackRock expands proxy voting to retail investors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2022
... reported by FS Sustainability, last month the state of Missouri pulled approximately US$500 million from BlackRock. Republican State Treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick announced that the Missouri State Employees' Retirement System (MOSERS) sold all public ...

Chief economist update: Disappointing jobs results raise Biden's stimulus bid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021
... Tuvalu as spare change. To be sure, recent headlines report that POTUS is determined to pass the stimulus package sans Republican Party support by using the budget reconciliation rules. As per Factset: "Deutsche Bank pointed out that a $1.9T package ...

You can't hate Trump but love the S&P 500: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021
... Us mapped political donations from S&P 500 companies to political parties and found 54% of them donated more to the Republican Party than to Democratic Party. Meanwhile only 29% of S&P 500 stocks gave more to the Democrats. The above is true for popular ...

Chief economist update: Biden cooks Donald's duck

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
"A whole new world A new fantastic point of view..." -Zayn Malik, Zhavia Ward Former vice-president Joe Biden is now POTUS-elect, breaking the record for the most votes (70 million plus votes and counting) received by a presidential candidate in US ...

Trump will continue to buoy stock markets: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
Robert Mueller's findings that US President Donald Trump did not collude with Russia during the 2016 election campaign is good news for the global share markets, Financial Standard's latest spot poll shows. The majority of readers (68%) agree that ...

Chief economist update: BOJ decision announced and ignored

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2019
... second" - Walter Hagen" in a bid to chastise (shame?) Trump after "The billionaire tycoon... came in second in the Republican Iowa caucus" on the 1st of February 2016. For sure and for certain, the world will remember Trump now and his on again-off again ...