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Go, iron ore, go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2021
... dropping by 12.0% -- it's making up for higher demand from the others ex-China and surging iron ore prices. The Lucky Country is getting luckier. For not only will the higher price of its major commodity export contribute to its growth renaissance ...

Government debt blows out 420%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
The federal government's debt levels soared 420% over the last 25 years, shifting Australia up two notches on the rankings of an index to 13 th place. According to the inaugural Janus Henderson's Sovereign Debt Index, the federal government ...

Macquarie head joins alternative platform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2021
... available to institutions. Brookman will set up the Australian business for Altive, which is based in Hong Kong, and will be country head for Australia and managing partner. He was previously at Macquarie Group for more than 13 years, departing at the ...

Chief economist update: Australians all let us rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2021
Australia is back! Back on track after its economy was cruelly interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This space had been ranting about the virtuous cycle that had been circling around the nation since activity and business and consumer sentiment indicators ...

Risk advice most sought-after among Kiwis

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021
... overwhelming 70% of products that New Zealand financial advisers recommend are life insurance products, according to the country's financial markets regulator. New statistics released by the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) reveals that risk products ...

Chief economist update: RBNZ keeps policy steady on unsteady outlook

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021
... While the New Zealand central bank cited the improvement in the global economic outlook - and the attendant benefit the country gets from rising commodity export prices - and hopes that the planned Trans-Tasman bubble will "support incomes and employment ...

ETP demand soars, unlisted unit trusts retract

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
... has already played out in the slicing and dicing of traditional market-cap-weighted exposures along the lines of region, country, sector, industry, and so on," she said. This article was updated on April 14.

Chief economist update: ScoMo cannot miss new vaccination target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
Some move the goalposts when they can't hit the target, but Prime Minister Scott Morrison did one better and all but abandoned his government's vaccine roll-out target. Taking to Facebook, Morrison announced on April 10 that: "The government ...

YFYS net must be cast wider: Cbus

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2021
... the net, if it is being thrown, it needs to be thrown across the entire sector for the good of all superannuants in the country." Cbus executive for brand, advocacy, engagement and product Robbie Campo added that the Productivity Commission identified ...

QMV partnerships lead resigns

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2021
... Clamp joined QMV in December last year as the general manager of technology. Clamp joined the firm after three years as country director for Australia and New Zealand at intellectual property services and software company CPA Global.