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VicSuper disputes fee hike claim

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
... increased financial advice fees upon its mega-fund merger with First State Super. Following reports in the Australian Financial Review that internal documents seen by the publication indicated VicSuper expects the cost of the "most simple form of complex ...

Oil tanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... standstill and factories in lockdown, the planet is drowning in oil and nowhere to store them. Just as the Australian Financial Review (AFR) reports, "With demand down 30 per cent worldwide due to the coronavirus pandemic, and the main US storage hub ...

Former Wallaby banned

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... with ASIC expressing concern at the time that Poidevin pressured Rodr into incriminating himself. Australian Financial Review reported that Norman O'Bryan, SC representing ASIC told the AAT that Rodr "jumped under the bus to take the hit for Poivedin". ...

Chief economist update: The cheaper alternative

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2020
... and experts are warning the floodgates are likely to open soon." This statement -- printed by the Australian Financial Review - talked about the rising number of infections in the UK and how "Australia will also suffer as many severe cases and deaths ...

Westpac not evacuated, misinformation abounds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
... including sending some employees home so that cleaning could occur in certain parts of the offices. The Australian Financial Review reported that Westpac had evacuated floors and Daily Mail Australia reported the suspected cases had forced an evacuation. ...

Government ignored ASIC over LIC carve-out

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2020
... ban. According to documents published last week under a freedom of information request made by The Australian Financial Review, ASIC pleaded with the Coalition government not to expand the stamping fee carve-out in the FoFA laws in late 2013. The expansion ...

Chief economist update: When monetary and fiscal policies don't meet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2019
... reviewed these unconventional tools employed by central banks since the Great Recession of 2008, with the Australian Financial Review reporting: "Negative interest rates, central bank lending to commercial banks, purchases of financial assets such as ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
... effective at the margin"; and The government's obsession with achieving a Budget surplus. The Australian Financial Review 's (AFR) headlines say it all: "Morrison warns banks not to get 'sheepish" (September 25) and "Don't force banks ...

Chief economist update: RBA cuts official cash rate to 0.75%

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
... full employment, and achieve the inflation target over time." However, this is inconsistent with the Australian Financial Review 's (AFR) report quoting Lowe as saying: "Monetary policy has become less effective at the margin... Once upon a time ...

Treasury agreed with Grattan SG modelling

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2019
... Nathan Bonarius. Treasury emails published Friday, under a freedom of information request from The Australian Financial Review show it concluded Grattan's findings were broadly consistent with internal Treasury analysis. Grattan Institute's Brendan ...