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Chief economist update: Eurozone contraction heads from mild to severe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... pandemic. The following month, it lowered the interest rate on TLTRO III - emergency lending to banks - and announced a new series of non-targeted pandemic emergency longer-term refinancing operations (PELTROs) to provide extra liquidity to banks. In ...

Chief economist update: Hong Kong is ours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... powers-that-be to contain the virus sent the economy plunging 6.8% in the year to the March 2020 quarter... but it also halted the series of ongoing protests in Hong Kong that began in June last year. With the spread of the coronavirus under control ...

Westpac admits to failures

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2020
... number of admissions in its response to the Statement of Claim," the bank said in a statement. The defence filed makes a series of admissions of failures. These include the non-reporting of international fund transfer instructions (IFTIs) and failure ...

Chief economist update: The outlook for Australia, according to COVID-19

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... on record - gives credence to the RBA's gloomy outlook on Australian economic growth. The lead from the ANZ job ads series - released a day before the RBA meeting - also supports its dim view of the labour market. Job ads in newspapers and on the ...

Now is the time to step up: FEW

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... confidence to do so is what FEW is all about and it's a theme that underscores FEW's recently launched FEW Connect livestream series, hosted by Tullio and FEW chief executive Judith Beck. Launched five weeks ago as an alternative to the group's regular ...

COVID-19 drives Aussies to check exemptions

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... Committee on Economics hearing into the life insurance sector, ClearView managing director Simon Swanson responded to a series of questions levelled by Labor MP Andrew Leigh about exemptions for suicide in the firm's life insurance policies. After ...

Chief economist update: Approaching peak isolation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... composite PMI output index dropped to a reading of 27.4 in April - "the fastest reduction in private sector output since the series began in late-2009" - from March's final reading of 40.9, dragged down by significant falls in the manufacturing and ...

Boutique manager taps former Challenger executive

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... officer of global equities and fixed income - Beardow joined the firm, which has managed wholesale investor capital, in a series of managed accounts, since July 2017. Around a year ago the firm launched its Darling Macro Fund, which aims to "dynamically ...

Compliance worse than COVID-19

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... said regulatory requirements had increased the cost of advice. "There is a strong view that the cumulative impact of a series of regulatory reforms over recent years and other regulatory interventions has materially increased the cost of and complexity ...

Not the time to sell products

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... stopped selling because we wanted to help financial advisors and get them set up." Rady said the firm recently delivered a series of webinars on how advisers can be most efficient and have empathetic conversations digitally. "So that approach we feel ...