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Boards suffer from disconnect between risk, strategy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
... appetite to strategic decisions to make the most of the coming year. Report principal author Jerome Nyssen said the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated many of the disruptors anticipated by Australian organisations and introduced others that could not have ...

NSW pocketed $10bn from ERS

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
... cruel blow to the Victorians who had to make the tough choice to sacrifice retirement savings to get them through the pandemic," ISA said.

Chief economist update: Japan's second state of emergency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
... slowing in consumption and business activity following the declaration of the second state of emergency. The worst of the pandemic appeared to have passed when Yoshihide Suga took over from Shinzo Abe - who resigned for health reasons - as Japan's ...

Crackdown on ERS scams continues

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021
... received over 5170 scam reports mentioning COVID-19 with over $6.28 million in reported losses since the outbreak of the pandemic. A spokesperson from the ATO told Financial Standard that it was still working closely with the AFP to find those responsible. ...

QBE takes final hit in FCA test case

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021
... insurers will need to respond to in a similar scenario. "Many policyholders whose businesses were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic suffered significant losses, resulting in large numbers of claims under business interruption (BI) policies," the FCA ...

First Sentier launches infrastructure fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2021
... Greenup, who also co-manages the First Sentier Global Infrastructure Fund (FLIIX). Greenup said last year that the global pandemic created a buying opportunity in global listed infrastructure that led to mispricing of assets like energy infrastructure ...

BlackRock results reveal Aladdin trajectory

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2021
... officer Gary Shedlin said technology growth had been negatively impacted in 2020 with sales feeling the effect of the pandemic. Technology services earnings were still up 11% for the quarter and 17% for the full year. Shedlin insisted demand for the ...

Chief economist update: Yuan the victim of China's success

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2021
... from competitive devaluation and not target its exchange rate for competitive purposes". That was before the COVID-19 pandemic. Compared with other nations around the globe, the Politburo's swift, decisive and draconian measures to control the coronavirus ...

Chief economist update: China on my mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021
... respectively, over the same period. However, the local bourse's performance when looked at in the context of the coronavirus pandemic that witnessed a virtual freezing of domestic and international activity - due to disruptions in supply chains ...

Chief economist update: The virus, the vaccine, the variant

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... months make. The World Health Organisation (WHO) named the virus COVID-19 on February 11 last year and declared it a pandemic exactly a month after on 11 March 2020. No need to narrate and describe what happened thereafter. You, I and Irene and our neighbours ...