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Industry flocks to JobKeeper handouts

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... and insurance services businesses have applied for JobKeeper payments for their employees. This is followed by 1342 in Western Australia, 888 in South Australia, 131 in Tasmania, 140 in ACT and 44 in Northern Territory. While the total of 13,493 applications ...

Sentiment weakens as macro threats loom

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... to the presidential election. "China also seems willing to accept increased pressure by the US, and even by much of the Western world, without major reprisals," he said. "Except that it seems to be using trade restrictions as a method for punishing Australia ...

Chief economist update: Border brawl

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... re-opening state borders. Those that have recorded minimal or no new cases of infections in recent weeks -- South Australia, Western Australia and Northern Territory and Queensland - want to keep their borders shuttered; those with the most number of ...

VIC, TAS lead Australia: CommSec

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... investment. NSW slipped to fourth place, with South Australia and Queensland sitting in fifth and sixth position respectively. Western Australia remains in seventh position, ahead of Northern Territory. CommSec chief economist Craig James said while ...

SMSF auditors come under fire

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... breaching CPD requirements. In addition to these disqualifications, ASIC imposed one-year suspensions and conditions on two Western Australia-based auditors. Ronald Cuthbertson was suspended for "deficiencies in auditing the valuation of fund assets ...

Credit value exists in emerging markets

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... now the oil crash, a global fixed interest investment manager still sees value in the higher quality part of the market. Western Asset Management said the double-barreled shocks of coronavirus containment measures and the oil price collapse will still ...

COVID-19 to lead to deglobalisation: Amundi

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... counterparts, Amundi said. "After the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in China and East Asia, and the second wave in Western Europe and North America, a third wave now looks to be building in several EM and frontier countries," it said. "EM and frontier ...

Australia versus the world

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... leverage. "Australia has hitherto avoided that problem," he said. Anthony Kirkham, portfolio manager for the Legg Mason Western Asset Australia Bond Fund said that whilst quantitative easing can broadly define what many central bank responses has been ...

Chief economist update: The cheaper alternative

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2020
... plans to spend as much as 15% worth of the UK's national output. To limited avail. But Johnson's draconian - by western standards - shutdown regulations gave Britons hope. So much so that, according to the latest YouGov poll, Boris' net approval ...

Former ANZ adviser banned

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
ASIC has banned a Western Australia-based adviser from providing financial services for four years. The regulator said it had been surveilling Anthony Hilsley's activities when he was an authorised representative of RI Advice Group, owned at that time ...