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ISPT writes down assets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
Industry Super Property Trust has spoken of the substantial devaluations a recent review of its holdings resulted in, as it processes about 1400 requests for rental relief. Appearing before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics ...

Chief economist update: Australian pessimism eases

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
... be more than outweighed by the clear success they have had in containing the virus". Adding to Bill's optimistic assessment, all of the consumer sentiment index's sub-components increased sharply over the month, with the index for economic conditions ...

Banks to assess loan deferrals

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
... with an additional 5000 new or redeployed staff working to ensure customers understand their options." The customer assessment will require customers who are able to resume payments to do so. For those customers who are still in financial hardship, banks ...

Chief economist update: V in US recovery at risk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
... Index now stands at 84.8 (1985=100), down from 91.7 in July. The Present Situation Index - based on consumers' assessment of current business and labor market conditions - decreased sharply from 95.9 to 84.2. The Expectations Index - based on consumers' ...

ASIC names operations, risk leads

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020
... employee Warren Day to the newly-created role of chief operating officer after serving as the executive director of assessment and intelligence since January 2019. Prior to his appointment as operations chief in August, Day has worked across several ...

APRA expands super data collection

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020
... approach to super fund expenditure and establishing more consistent reporting categories for more effective analysis and assessment of levels and types of expenditure. Lastly, APRA said it will be expanding the reporting of asset allocation data to choice ...

Corporate climate risk disclosures must show more: IGCC

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
... reporting on climate risk, found that improvements are needed in climate risk disclosure to make it more useful for risk assessment and portfolio management. Since the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure released its recommendations in ...

Chief economist update: Worse news is better news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2020
... anticipated in the June forecast, the positive effect on the economic outlook was outweighed somewhat by the staff's assessment of the likely effects of several other factors," The Fed said. "Those factors included the increasing spread of the coronavirus ...

Advice firm awarded international certification

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2020
Shadforth Financial Group has achieved the international fiduciary certification following an assessment by the Centre for Fiduciary Excellence. Shadforth is now one of just seven Australian advice firms to have the certification. "Advice relationships ...

Vanguard funds downgraded by Morningstar

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2020
... rated Gold by Morningstar for several years, has recently been subject to a re-rating across the sector based on a new assessment process by Morningstar. "Vanguard wishes to make it clear that the investment process, including the strategic asset allocation ...