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Chief economist update: COVID-19 cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
... daily spike in cases in more than three months with officials citing returning travelers as the cause. France marked its highest daily rise since May and placed red alerts on Paris and Marseille. Spain continued to face the worst coronavirus infection ...

Sales, reporting top buy-side pandemic struggles

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
... challenging it was for their organisation to respond to COVID-19 induced disruption on a 0 to 10 scale, with 8-10 being the highest degrees of concern. More than half of sell-side participants (51%) rated 8-10 for both risk management and compliance ...

Chief economist update: Second wave threatens an oil spill

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
... day - equivalent to 10% of global supply -- along with, according to OPEC, a "conformity level of 95% in June 2020, the highest since the inception of the DoC (Declaration of Compliance) in January 2017, tilted crude oil's supply/demand equation ...

Chief economist update: The wages of COVID-19

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
... all. Wages growth might be the lowest in 22 years but... real wages growth (wages less inflation) is presumably also the highest over that timeframe. The annual growth in real total wages jumped to 2.6% in the June quarter from only 0.03% in the March ...

Advice firm awarded international certification

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2020
... management of their total balance sheets and consequently their financial futures. To be a fiduciary means we are bound by the highest standards and three primary duties." Centre for Fiduciary Excellence managing director Carlos Manskep said the centre's ...

ERS doesn't justify higher SG: Grattan

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2020
... protecting that person from an even worse outcome in retirement," it said. "Our modelling shows workers on all but the highest incomes will retire on incomes at least 70% of their pre-retirement post-tax earnings, the so-called replacement standard." ...

Chief economist update: Good US employment news is not so good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2020
... Small businesses are faring better too. The NFIB Small Business Optimism index rose to a reading of 100.6 in June - the highest reading since February (before the coronavirus crisis) -- from 94.4 in May and April's seven-year low reading of 90.9. ...

Chief executives cop pay cuts

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020
... Despite this, substantial increases in share prices which increased the value of equity incentives saw newcomers to the highest paid chief executives. IDP Education chief executive Andrew Barkla received $37.7 million in realised pay. He was followed ...

ESG funds crowned winners of COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
... of the first quarter to $17.7 billion (US$12.6 billion). At the end of June, sustainable assets recorded one of their highest levels, only outpaced by their peak at December 2019. Morningstar found there are now 108 strategies in the Australasian sustainable ...

Financial comfort reliant on fiscal support: ME Bank

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... bills or loan repayments," he said. More than half of households spent less than they earned each month, up 8% to the highest level of households saving in the survey's history. However, Oughton warns this cautious behaviour and a lack of spending may ...