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Chief economist update: What to expect when you're expecting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... brewing tension between the US and China and Australia and China. Would the RBA be forced to respond with a ZIRP (zero interest rate policy) or NIRP (negative interest rate policy) then? As early as late 2019, Lowe has ruled out sending interest rates ...

Details of Mayfair's default revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2020
... Victoria revealed a timeline of trouble for embattled Mayfair. Vasco says Mayfair 101 Holdings owes $76,965,000 excluding interest and default interest. Mayfair 101 managing director James Mawhinney asked the trustee of the IPO Wealth Fund to tap into ...

Clearstream rebrands Australian acquisition

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2020
... said the service provider would help leverage its parent company's expertise in the local market. "We see growing interest in cross-border investments in Australia," he said. "Connecting the Australian market with other international markets, Clearstream ...

IRESS advances surprise bid for OneVue

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2020
... emerge from Sargon's biggest creditor, China Taiping Trustees. China-Taiping "very recently" asserted a competing security interest in the shares of Madison Financial Group, and OVH says that after the sale is completed, the competing claims to proceeds ...

Sargon liquidators want to dig deeper

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... contingent on further funding. The liquidator says it examined Sargon's accounting systems and found that it had interest payments of $3.9 million due to Taiping as at early January 2020. But it did not have enough cash at bank to pay the interest ...

BlackRock iShares launches two ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... iShares Core Corporate Bond ETF to our existing fixed income ETF suite, particularly in the current backdrop of ultra-low interest rates and reduced equity dividends," iShares head of Australasia Christian Obrist said. "Designed with investors' needs ...

Enquiry into lacklustre employee share schemes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
Australia's reluctance to adopt employee share schemes will be the subject of a public enquiry, with the aim of breathing new life into such schemes. The Standing Committee on Tax and Revenue will inquire into and report on the tax treatment of employee ...

ASIC bans Linchpin directors

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
ASIC first banned the three from providing any financial services for a period of five years in November 2019 but they appealed the decision. They applied for a stay of the decision and a confidentiality order preventing ASIC from publishing information ...

Wage growth, not wage cuts

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... wasn't climbing as expected, that was mainly due to a cyclical downturn," Keating said. All that was needed were some interest rate cuts, he said. "We've had 17 interest rate cuts in the past decade the treasury and Reserve Bank have continued to forecast ...

SMSFs to weather the storm

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... fund the next year's income." The amalgamation of the loss of previously reliable income streams, coupled with super-low interest rates, has put some retirees in a more difficult position. Meg Heffron, chief executive at Heffron SMSF Solutions, said ...