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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
... 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"! The consequences of this are splattered in the headlines: From ...

Regulatory, legal exam questions trip up advisers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
... registered for the August exam, to be held in metropolitan and regional locations and online from August 13-18. The Melbourne exams will only be online due to COVID-19 restrictions. Registration is open for the October exam, to be held from October 8-13 ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
... and fiscal update just a little over two weeks ago, it assumed that restrictions re-introduced "across metropolitan Melbourne and the Mitchell Shire from July 9" would "remain in place for six weeks, easing to step 1 opening of restrictions until mid-September ...

Housing values continue to slide

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
... at 0.7%. Canberra and Adelaide were the only capital cities to report a rise in values at 0.6% and 0.1% respectively. Melbourne and Sydney suffered the greatest month-on-month losses at 1.2% and 0.9%. CoreLogic's head of research Tim Lawless said despite ...

Zenith names new general manager

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020
... acquisition of the Chant West business on June 30, with the combined group now employing 70 staff across both Sydney and Melbourne. In the new role, Fryer will join Zenith's management committee and will focus on various integration initiatives to help ...

Bond investor sues Australian government

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... O'Donnell grew up with a strong environmental awareness. The family has now relocated to Hurstbridge, on the outskirts of Melbourne, but O'Donnell's interest in the environment has remained strong. A student exchange to Norway recently showing ...

Tasmania leads the nation: CommSec

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... wages growth and home prices. Hobart had the highest annual inflation rate in the March quarter (up 3.4%), ahead of Melbourne (2.7%) and Adelaide (2.4%). Meanwhile, only four economies recorded positive wage growth in the quarter, with the biggest decline ...

Boutique appoints chief operating officer

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
A Melbourne boutique has hired a new chief operating officer, who has previously worked in similar roles at Perennial and Prodigy. Lewis Bearman is joining Blue Orbit Asset Management in the newly-created role effective August 4. Bearman was most recently ...

Giselle Roux joins Melbourne boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
The former chief investment officer of Escala Partners and JBWere has joined a Melbourne boutique in an investment advisory role. Roux left Escala in August 2019 after six years with the firm, following US-based Focus Financial Partners taking a stake ...

Stimulus, ERS pushes spending up 17%

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... sample, average spending was actually 2% below normal levels. The data covers July 6-12, including four days of the Melbourne lockdown and NSW border closure. By comparing now to seven weeks ago, when restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19 were ...