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Chief economist update: The cure for Italy's tourism problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2020
... to reduce over tourism including; prohibiting sitting on the Spanish steps, riding bikes in Venice, eating snacks on the street of Florence and considering installing barriers around the Fontana di Trevi. These rules and regulations have become petty ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 solves overtourism in Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... introduced new rules and regulations prohibiting sitting on the Spanish steps, riding bikes in Venice, eating snacks on the street of Florence, etc. and is considering installing barriers around the Fontana di Trevi. The spread of COVID-19 gave Europeans ...

Chief economist update: Australians not confident enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2020
Latest surveys show an improvement in Australian consumer and business confidence despite concerns over the impact of the bushfires, floods and the coronavirus. The Westpac-Melbourne Institute Index of Consumer Sentiment rose 2.3% to 95.5 in February ...

BlackRock wakes up to climate change

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
BlackRock will double its ESG ETF offerings, dump investments in thermal coal and increase sustainable assets under management tenfold this decade. All this, just six months after it was revealed that BlackRock lost more than $133 billion by investing ...

APRA releases MySuper heat map

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
The prudential regulator has finally published its long-awaited heat map for MySuper products, with deputy chair Helen Rowell saying it's likely many in the industry will feel uncomfortable. APRA released the first iteration of its MySuper heat ...

Defined contribution: A global perspective

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2019
... isn't far from developing a nation of savers. "You watch what's happening in media, you listen to conversations on the street KiwiSaver is becoming a much more day to day conversation rather than just an industry specialist conversation," he said. Klipin ...

Chief economist update: This land is ours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2019
Five months and one day. This is the latest count since Hong Kongers started marching on the streets of China's Special Administrative Region (SAR) - on March 31 - protesting the withdrawal of the extradition bill proposed by China's "hand-picked" ...

Chief economist update: A case for optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2019
With a buoyant stock market, tax cuts, lower interest rates and a recovering housing market, one would think all Australians should have every reason to dance on the streets. Australians, all, should be dancing on the streets to Jimmy Cliff's classic ...

John Key under fire

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
... designed so that we don't end up like, for example, Greece or Portugal where there are people lined up for kilometres down the street trying to get their money out because the banks didn't have enough by way of reserve," Peters said. Peters also denounced ...

Impact investing an advice opportunity: Expert

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... algorithms and jargon around beta and alpha and benchmarks and indices. Which mean very little to the average person on the street, the average investor." Latham - whose firm manages the Pengana WHEB Sustainable Impact Fund - noted impact investing allows ...