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Former BNY Mellon IM country head joins Westpac

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
... Westpac. He reports to Mark Sherwood, Westpac's state director of global investment services for New South Wales and Victoria. The global investment services sources, selects and monitors multi-asset and multi-currency investments for high net worth ...

Government introduces pandemic payment

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
Workers in Victoria who are required to isolate for two weeks and do not have sick leave entitlements will soon have access to paid pandemic leave. The government will introduce at $1500 disaster payment for workers in Victoria that do not have sick ...

Chief economist update: Could COVID-19 dissenters be correct?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
... to go back to the treetops where I came from [a decade ago]. But I digress. As it turns out, Australia's state of Victoria has gone a step further, with news.com.au averring that, "Melbourne is now under one of the strictest lockdowns in the world"! ...

Chief economist update: It's about human life, not human rights

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
... "We are all prisoners here of our own device." - Hotel California, The Eagles Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews declared Victoria in a "State of Disaster" from 6pm on August 2 and imposed Stage 4 restrictions that will run for six weeks (until September ...

Housing values continue to slide

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
... values. Housing values were unchanged in July compared with a 0.8% fall across the combined capital cities index. Regional Victoria (-0.5%) and regional Western Australia (-3.2%) were the only non-capital city markets to record a fall in values over ...

Bond investor sues Australian government

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... understand the risks we're taking," she said. O'Donnell grew up in Healesville in the Central Highlands region of Victoria which was impacted by the Black Saturday bushfires of 2009 and the bushfires at the start of this year. Both her parents ...

Chief economist update: Cheaper prices not a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... per cent) and a fall in pre-school and primary education (-16.2 per cent), with free pre-school being provided in NSW, Victoria and Queensland... Excluding these three components, the CPI would have risen 0.1 per cent in the June quarter." Similarly ...

Tasmania leads the nation: CommSec

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... October 2009, Tasmania has taken out CommSec's top gong as the best performing economy in its own right. It replaces Victoria, which has held the top spot in the online stockbroker's State of the States survey - either outright or shared - for eight ...

Chief economist update: No Karens in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... and China, my friends, is there are no selfish, stupid "Karens" in China. None that compare to the one in the state of Victoria that has now gone viral, protesting against the mandatory wearing of face masks. Let's see "Karen" try that in China. ...

Value to be found in childcare stocks

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
... industry throughout the pandemic has led to an undervaluation of childcare stock prices despite the COVID-19 surge in Victoria, according to latest research from Morningstar. Morningstar equity strategist Gareth James believes the government support ...