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Chief economist update: Pay cut or pay not?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
... -- the NAB business confidence index rebounded to a reading of -46 in April from -65 in March; the Westpac/Melbourne Institute Index of Consumer Sentiment jumped by 16.4% to 88.1 in May from April's 75.6 reading. The consumer sentiment survey also ...

Road to recovery

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... have to transform and develop new ways of doing business," Loades said. AusTTA points to research by BCG's Henderson Institute that suggests only 20-30% of 300 companies surveyed are putting in place plans to re-imagine their business. Further, the second ...

Chief economist update: Powell blamed for fall on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... waaay down from the record high of 85.47 hit in mid-March this year. For what Powell said in his speech at the Peterson Institute for International Economics are already what former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld would call "known ...

Culture is key in a crisis: Australian Ethical

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... risk officer of the nearly $4 billion super fund and investment manager. Speaking over the phone for the Governance Institute of Australia's virtual governance and risk management forum, Australian Ethical Investments chief risk officer Karen Hughes ...

Compliance crackdown, consultations on horizon: ASX

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... COVID-19 crisis, and revealed the several consultations it has on the horizon. Speaking over the phone for the Governance Institute of Australia's virtual governance and risk management forum, the ASX's chief compliance officer Kevin Lewis said ...

Chief economist update: Easing does it (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... loosened social restrictions, raising concerns that the pandemic could once again slip out of control. The Robert Koch Institute for disease control said in a daily bulletin the number of people each sick person now infects - known as the reproduction ...

Former Cbus advice head launches referral program

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... service organisations with financial planning groups. fpCentral, offered by Harper's firm Financial Advice Services Institute (FASI), will connect the two sides via an online login that allows advisers to manage referrals, reporting and operational ...

Frydenberg amends Corporations Act

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... to juggle requirements laid out in the Corporations Act with those of COVID-19-related restrictions. The Governance Institute chief executive Megan Motto welcomed the changes, but argued they were overdue. "Many organisations have been facing significant ...

Investment approaches in change phase

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... stronger performance across the board, but what they're seeing now certainly backs up the research. The Thinking Institute research found that half of the funds in its study thought that TPA would produce a performance advantage of at least 50-100 ...

CBA sells CommSec Adviser Services

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... entered into an agreement to sell AUSIEX, which trades as CommSec Adviser Services, to a Japanese firm. Nomura Research Institute, a Japanese technology solutions and business consulting firm, has entered into an $85 million in cash sale agreement with ...