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FS team picks: The top stories for 2020

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR, KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
Of the almost 3500 stories penned this year, these are the stories the Financial Standard team feels defined 2020. The Financial Standard editorial team has written 3484 stories so far in 2020. It wasn't always easy either. Like most of you, we ...

Chief economist update: Fed acts with inaction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
The Fed's final act for the pandemic year 2020 was inaction. At the conclusion of its December FOMC meeting, the US Federal Reserve said: "The Committee decided to keep the target range for the federal funds rate at zero to 0.25% and expects it ...

Departure at Perpetual small caps team

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
A UBS sell-side analyst who joined Perpetual's small caps team last year has left. Dean Fremder was hired as a dedicated small caps analyst last year to assist lead manager Jack Collopy in 2019 after seven years at UBS's small-cap sales desk ...

Chief economist update: An extra mile for a deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
"They say that breaking up is hard to do Now I know I know that it's true..." - Neil Sedaka It's been three-and-a-half years since the UK decided and then filed for divorce from the European Union (EU) and 11 months into the transition period ...

Tourmaline hires two leads, expands footprint

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2020
Tourmaline Partners has hired two new managing directors, one is based in Sydney and the other will lead its newly established Dallas office. The trading solutions firm for asset managers and hedge funds named Yuki Shimada as director of Asia Pacific ...

Qualitas readies new fund with GURNER

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020
Qualitas has partnered for a new fund that is starting with a $1 billion pipeline of multifamily housing assets in Melbourne. Qualitas is working with GURNER, with whom it has previously partnered on $150 million investment in build-to-sell development. ...

Chief economist update: David Australia versus Goliath China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept monetary policy unchanged at its December board meeting - the last of 2020 - and for good reason. "In Australia, the economic recovery is under way and recent data have generally been better than expected... ...

Aussies won't top-up ERS losses

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2020
New research reveals that less than half of the Australians that withdrew their super this year plan to direct tax savings towards replacing it. Research from Colonial First State, which looked at a sample of 2000 Australians, found that 16% had withdrawn ...

Chief economist update: The virus, the vaccine and Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
It's quite a delicate balance - akin to the "will it, won't it" speculations on Fed policy decisions BC (before COVID) - but it appears that the dying days of 2020 swing between optimism and pessimism depending on which side of the bed financial ...

Millions of workers facing financial stress: AMP

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
Severe and moderate levels of financial stress are impacting around 1.8 million Australian workers, according to AMP's latest Financial Wellness study. AMP said of those 1.8 million, nearly half have been feeling financially stressed for an average ...