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Crypto asset reforms underway: Treasurer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2022
Treasurer Jim Chalmers, minister for financial services Stephen Jones and minister for competition, charities and treasury Andrew Leigh have announced that work is underway on crypto asset reforms. "The Albanese government will improve the way Australia's ...

RBA spotlights inflation risk of higher wages

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2022
Minutes from the Reserve Bank of Australia's June board meeting revealed a risk of persistently high inflation as employees demanded a rise in wages to combat living costs. The minutes stipulated that should expectations of higher inflation become ...

Key investor trends unveiled in latest IFM report

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2022
... plans, generating economic and jobs growth, as well as delivering critical infrastructure that communities need. The US government announced an estimated US$3.2 trillion allocated to infrastructure globally as part of its COVID-related stimulus. Much ...

Biden signs executive order on digital assets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2022
... risks. The Financial Stability Oversight Council must also do the same. Among other things, the order directs the US government to take steps to study and support technology advances in the responsible development of digital assets systems in a way that ...

CalPERS names new chief investment officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2022
... financial disclosures. It was alleged under his leadership that the fund had invested in companies blacklisted by the US government and reports also suggested Meng was personally invested in several private equity firms that CalPERS had a stake in.

AMP Capital fund reduces fees, secures major loan

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2021
AMP Capital's Community Infrastructure Fund (CommIF) is shaking up its management fee structure and has announced that it secured a major loan for one of its key assets. The $1.4 billion fund told shareholders that from August 1, management fees ...

Keep COVID-19 in perspective: Panel

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
... geopolitical issues like the trade way between the US and China. Cantrill pointed out that the stimulus spend from the US government in response to COVID-19, at $5 trillion, is more than the US spent on World War Two. "Biden thinks domestic strength ...

Chief economist update: Too much of a good thing could be a bad thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
Healthier consumers are happier consumers are spending consumers. US consumer confidence has rebounded to its highest level since the onset of the pandemic in America in March last year. This is hardly surprising with cases of coronavirus infections ...

US regulator, states sue Facebook

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020
Facebook appears unfazed by antitrust lawsuits filed by 46 US states and the Federal Trade Commission seeking to force the social media giant to divest key assets, labelling the actions 'revisionist history'. The FTC and 48 Attorneys General ...

New multifamily real estate fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2020
... firm said multifamily real estate in US can qualify for low fixed-rate, long-term (up to 35 years) non-recourse US government insured debt. Immediately after the fund's close, Domus plans to make value-add improvements to increase rental income. It will ...