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Major funds expand with Singapore investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2019
... the acquisition of the Institute of Technical Education College West PPP Project in Singapore on behalf of MTAA Super and Prime Super. The education center was previously owned by Gammon Investments and Jardine Matherson Holdings as part of a joint venture. ...

Retirement income under review

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... competitiveness of the super system earlier this year, which called for a review of the retirement income system. In July, Prime Minister Scott Morrison maintained the retirement income review would not be bound by the government and would be open to ...

Chief economist update: China's great leap forward 70 years in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... requirement ratio several times from 17% in March 2018 to a 12-year low of 13% in September this year and cut the one-year loan prime rate down to 4.2% after lowering it to 4.25% in August and keeping it unchanged at 4.3% since 2015 - are having limited ...

Chief economist update: Morrison, Frydenberg cannot have their surplus and eat it too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
... banks to curb loans" - uttered by Australian Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg (September 26). In a sentence, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his Treasurer Josh Frydenberg are willing Australian banks to lend, lend and lend. Never mind ...

Northern Trust tests waters for ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
... review]." Northern Trust is the sixth-largest custodian in Australia with more than $400 billion in assets under custody and prime contracts for many not-for-profit funds such as Future Fund, QIC, Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation (CSC), Government ...

Members' interests bill sits on the precipice

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
... Craig Kelly, Andrew Hastie, Barnaby Joyce and Jason Falinski. "We are now seeing members of the coalition, including the Prime Minister and Treasurer, prevaricating on whether the scheduled increase in the superannuation guarantee to 12% will go ahead. ...

Senate creates committee on fintech, regtech

KRISTI CHENG  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2019
... compliance in the wake of the Hayne Royal Commission. At a Q&A session at the Institute of Public Administration last month, Prime Minister Scott Morrison spoke about how regtech could demystify the regulatory process of all three layers of Australian ...

Former Wallaby joins Invast Global

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2019
... coaching director, Rod Kafer, has hung up the boots for a new role at Invast Global. Kafer has been appointed director, Prime Services for the disruptor investment bank. Prior to working at Rugby Australia Kafer worked as a proprietary trader and has ...

Chief economist update: 'Paradox of Thrift' in action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2019
... 123.9 in May 2007 to 79.0 by July 2008) - the frog was dropped into boiling water. That got Kevin 07's (then Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd) attention, didn't it? As headlined in The Age (14 October 2008): "Rudd unveils $10.4b stimulus ...

Chief economist update: Economy slows to decade low but still tops the pops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
There were no back-patting and self-congratulatory remarks this time from Australia's Prime Minister and Treasurer for the Australian National Accounts show that it wasn't a "wonderful set of numbers". Instead, with economic growth slowing to ...