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Chief economist update: The vaccine has landed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2021
No more tears, fears... and hopefully snap lockdowns. Today, 22 February 2021, will go down in Australian history as VAC (vaccine against covid-19) Day (although Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly and 84-year-old ...

To keep or not to keep JobKeeper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
... profits, lifting business confidence, raising employment, buoying consumer confidence... Further, the Australian Financial Review ( AFR ) reports that: "More than 2.1 million workers have left the JobKeeper wage assistance scheme, which Treasurer Josh ...

Chief economist update: Overvaluation tests FOMO and TINA trades

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
... think that we are currently in the late stages of a broad-based bubble in risky assets." But as the Australian Financial Review reports: "...Bank of Montreal chief economist Doug Porter said the Reddit army's attack on GameStop and other highly shorted ...

Chief economist update: Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2021
... limiting the strain on the government budget and the national debt. You can't please everyone. The Australian Financial Review prints that UBS chief economist George Tharenou believes the stronger than expected economy has raised the risk that the ...

Shipton's tax bill under scrutiny

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
... from that very regulator. He also said one individual at an unnamed regulator was featured on the Australian Financial Review 'Power List' and highlighted as being one of the most powerful people in corporate Australia. Samuel later saw this ...

Aware Super, OptiComm deal still alive

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2020
... attempts to purchase the company. In an announcement to the ASX, the company said an article in the Australian Financial Review stating that OptiComm had received a strong indication from Aware Super that it would not make further takeover offers was ...

Media Super names new chair

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... fund's board since 2013 and was its audit and risk committee chair. Noonan, a former editor of The Australian Financial Review, was originally appointed chair in 2008 after the merger of the two industry funds Print Super and JUST Super. Print Super ...

Watermark LIC seeks restructure

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2020
... has failed, give shareholders back their NTA," the two said in an advertisement in September 23's Australian Financial Review, which called attention to ALF's discount to NTA and called its recent financial performance "woeful". ALF is urging shareholders ...

Chief economist update: October rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020
... July 21. These are totally rationale reactions to the prospect for cheaper cost of credit. For as the Australian Financial Review (AFR) puts it: "the market was pricing in the possibility that the Reserve Bank will lower the overnight cash rate and the ...

Lazard dumps AMP shares

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
... trade below $2," he said. Meanwhile, AMP Capital is facing an ongoing crisis of reputation after the Australian Financial Review revealed that the company knew about sexual harassment claims against new chief executive Boe Pahari but still promoted him ...