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Chief economist update: Gone fishing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
... education spending. They're responsible for much of the maintenance of much of Australia's infrastructure. So I would hope, over time, we would see more efforts to increase public investment in Australia to create jobs, and the state governments ...

Spaceship raises $10m in capital raise

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2020
Superannuation and investing startup Spaceship has raised $10 million from existing investors including from Atlassian billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes' family office. The raise was offered to existing shareholders, as foreshadowed by Financial Standard ...

WAM makes proposition plans public

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020
Wilson Asset Management has made public its bid to manage listed investment company Contango Income Generator (ASX: CIE), after the investment manager failed to respond to WAM's initial proposal. It comes after the manager of the fund, Contango ...

Impact investors team up for $48m investment

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020
... investing in disability housing alongside Summer Housing, we can significantly improve our residents' quality of lives. We hope to grow this partnership to continue to help address the acute accommodation undersupply for people living with disability," ...

ANZ posts profit, announces dividend

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020
ANZ has announced an unaudited statutory profit for the third quarter of $1.32 billion and an interim dividend of 25 cents per share, fully franked. The bank reported an unaudited cash profit from continuing operations of $1.5 billion, with chief executive ...

How to make sense of reporting season

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2020
As we reach a third of the way through Australia's reporting season, an advice and stockbroking group has identified three key trends that have so far emerged from the results. Wilsons Advisory noted that many of the companies that have reported thus ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
Is this the new normal cycle? The cycle of coronavirus cycling its way around the world and infection, containment through social distancing and lockdowns, easing of restrictions, and back to infection - the second wave? This cycle hit home when the ...

Law firm slams insurer mental health policies

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
... occupation, often paying for a product they were never going to be eligible for," she said. "Then there are delay tactics in the hope that people will just give up or apply for Centrelink. This renewed push is a totally inappropriate interference with ...

Mixed results at Bjelke-Peterson estate sale

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
A Lloyds auction of the estate of controversial former Queensland premier Joh Bjelke-Peterson produced mixed results. One of the big ticket items was a piece of paraphernalia from 1969, when the astronauts who landed on the moon toured the world attending ...

FSU wants CBA to up pay

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
... the contribution being made by bank workers to keep the Australian economy going during these difficult times and we would hope the CBA takes note of that when it comes to finalising the current round of enterprise bargaining," Angrisano said. "FSU members ...