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ARK Innovation ETF cops neutral rating

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
... to an 18% stake in the industrials company. "In the healthcare sector, ARKK has owned Compugen (CGEN), a therapeutic discovery company, since its inception, but the fund doubled its stake in 2020 and now owns 21% of the $1 billion company. ARKK also ...

Chief economist update: OECD sees stronger growth ahead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
... largesse have succeeded in mitigating the deep recessions many countries experienced from diving deeper. Them and the rapid discovery of vaccines and their subsequent rollouts are now turning the beat around into an improving outlook. Individual economies ...

Chief economist update: Australian capex in COVID-19's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2020
... before Australia's success at containing COVID, before the Treasury's new initiative and before news of vaccine discovery, domestic businesses are already planning lifting capital expenditure. As per the ABS: "Estimate 4 for 2020-21 is $104,984m. ...

Chief economist update: Dow 30 thousand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
... Biden's victory at the November 2020 US presidential elections - although Trump continues to deny it - and lately, the discovery of not one, not two, but three vaccines against covid-19 and Houston, our problems are nearly over. "So this is Christmas ...

Chief economist update: A vaccine and a better vaccine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2020
... Powell was referring to the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine candidate - and its shortcomings - back then. Moderna's discovery should partly assuage some of Powell's concerns. Still, it'll be a race against time. Will the vaccine be produced and ...

Risk but no reward in institutional equities portfolios

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... risk in these equities portfolio. The result was benchmark-like returns at active fees. "Perhaps the most startling discovery to us was the fact that, on average, portfolios had nearly two times the amount of uncompensated risk versus compensated risk," ...

AMP, former employee settle

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2020
... These may be legally privileged documents and she said she will supply them in a confidential communication following discovery. AMP later disputed her use of them. Cook claimed that from September 2017 she was exposed to persistently and increasingly ...

Rest climate change case pushes ahead

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2020
... climate change is pushing ahead, with a trial fast approaching. Rest and Mark McVeigh have a hearing for a dispute on discovery and privilege today before mediation on September 22 and a pre-trial case management hearing on September 23. JANA, Rest's ...

ASIC reinforces power to obtain documents

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
... notice was too broad. That's because a notice issued under section 33 of the ASIC Act is not like a subpoena or discovery in normal litigation and cannot be objected to on the grounds that it involves a "fishing expedition" - rather, the regulator ...

Chief economist update: Forecasting is futile

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020
... around lunchtime yesterday. It was good... until the evening of yesterday, when Jacinda took the airwaves announcing the discovery of four new cases of infection while at the same time announcing the re-imposition of Level 3 restrictions on Auckland ...