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Macquarie profits slide 32%

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2020
... than same period last year. "Recent months have been overshadowed by the profound human impact of COVID-19 global health crisis and its economic consequences," Macquarie chief executive Shemara Wikramanyake said. "Those impacts are reflected in our results ...

RBA measures not solely due to COVID: Treasury

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2020
... Treasury is already forecasting more frequently than ever as it has incorporated the use of real-time data during the COVID-19 crisis. "Treasury is actively considering how our processes can be adjusted to make more up-to-date assessments of the appropriate ...

Spaceship delivers for millennials

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2020
... the report, Rainmaker's MySuper index returned its first negative financial year return since the Global Financial Crisis of -0.90% at the end of FY20. The index registered 5.1% p.a. (three years), 5.5% p.a. (five years) and 7.5% p.a. (10 years). ...

Rest climate case dismissed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2020
... the reassurance that we need to know that our retirement savings will be invested responsibly in the face of the climate crisis," McVeigh said. "This case is a ground-breaking recognition of the material financial risk that climate change poses to the ...

The Big Issue launches investment platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
... 1.8% per year," the website shows. The Big Issue Group chair Nigel Kershaw said the world has changed with the Covid-19 crisis and there is an absolute need to change the financial system to help build a better world. "A new financial system that is ...

Pandemic batters life insurers

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... said the life insurance industry now faces additional significant challenges in responding to the impacts of the health crisis, while addressing serious and ongoing profitability issues. "Progress towards a more sustainable position requires action on ...

Keep spending and investing: Lowe

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... highest in almost 50 years." Lowe said another major factor that will impact the shape of Australia's recovery from the crisis is the "shadow" that has been cast by what he said has been a very uneven recession. "All recessions are uneven, but this one ...

Stephen Jones admits to anti-life insurance bias

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... either. Jones replied to this that wealthy Australians will continue to be able to afford advice and that those in financial crisis could be assisted by government initiatives to provide access to financial counselling. But, it's those in the middle ...

Women focus in Labor budget reply

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
... said Treasurer Josh Frydenberg's budget has left Australians behind. "Our economy was already struggling coming into the crisis. Slow growth, flat wages, declining productivity, business investment going backwards, a doubling of debt," he said. "Now ...

Effects of ERS not so bad: Grattan

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020
... not the Morrison government has made the correct call in betting on an investment-led recovery. "We know that before the crisis business investment was weak. There is not much here that makes me think we are going to see a boom in consumer activity," ...