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Westpac not evacuated, misinformation abounds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
... Standard, said nothing about an evacuation. Rather, suspected cases of COVID-19 relating to people who had recently travelled overseas were self-isolating as were those they had direct contact with. "Based on what we know, and advice from our independent ...

Foreign fund managers granted licensing relief

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2020
Overseas fund managers are set to be exempt from requiring an Australian financial services licence for the purposes of convincing professional investors to become a client. Under ASIC's newly released foreign financial services provider regulatory ...

Actuaries Institute appoints 2020 president

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... Institute's members working in data analytics. "The Institute's expertise is routinely sought by policymakers, both here and overseas," she said. "As a profession we have a role to help our society deal with emerging risks such as climate change and ...

Coronavirus no match for Future Fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... According to its December 31 portfolio update - its most recent - more than 29% of the fund's assets are allocated to overseas equity markets, with just 6.8% invested in Australian equities. "So at the current time the Future Fund's highly diversified ...

Chief economist update: Welcome to the day after tomorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... and means that global growth in the first half of 2020 will be lower than earlier expected... The coronavirus outbreak overseas is having a significant effect on the Australian economy at present, particularly in the education and travel sectors. The ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 solves overtourism in Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... to boost supply - demand could rise but there'll be less factories operating, less workers working adding to the overseas disruptions to the supply chain. The European Commission's new aid package worth €232 million announced on February 24 ...

New ETF for ASX All Tech Index

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... tracking the NASDAQ, Asian tech stocks, and now, the ASX's all tech sector. For ATEC, it sees potential demand from overseas investors looking to access Australian tech stocks. "It's very early days yet but we have seen inflows from big global ...

Focus to acquire stake in MEDIQ

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
... accounting and taxation division "Focus's international network is very appealing, as many of our clients have investments overseas [in countries such as US and UK]. They are good at organising events with their partner firms and the opportunity ...

Industry super steps up SG campaign as RBA weighs in

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
... wages. "The way we've looked at it, for the purposes of our forecasts, is we've looked at both Australian and overseas examples where there's been some non-cash increase in benefits that the worker prefers, and it's not quite a full pass ...

Magellan cracks $100 billion

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2020
... getting on with it." Analysis of Magellan's FUM from Rainmaker shows that it is increasingly raising its money from overseas investors. Casarotti confirmed this, adding that most of its institutional investors are from overseas. It's a shift ...