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Westpac appoints new chair

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
Westpac has appointed John McFarlane to the board as non-executive director and chair-elect, set to replace Lindsay Maxsted on 2 April 2020. McFarlane has over 44 years' experience in the financial services industry both in Australia and internationally ...

Chief economist update: More from Morrison

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
"Getting small businesses back on their feet is critical. We want to ensure the right support is in place for small businesses as they get past the initial recovery phase of this unprecedented bushfire crisis..." These were Australian Prime Minister ...

Light on horizon for global economy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
The International Monetary Fund has predicted an upturn in the global economy in 2020, though the biggest risk to a rebound is climate change. In 2019 the global economy experiences the weakest growth since the Global Financial Crisis, but the IMF is ...

Climate crisis tops list of risks for 2020s

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
For the first time, climate crisis and environmental degradation have taken out the top five spots in a list ranking the risks most likely to impact the world over the coming decade. It comes as extreme weather events batter the world; with fires burning ...

BlackRock wakes up to climate change

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
BlackRock will double its ESG ETF offerings, dump investments in thermal coal and increase sustainable assets under management tenfold this decade. All this, just six months after it was revealed that BlackRock lost more than $133 billion by investing ...

Chief economist update: A busy 2020 for Abe, BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020
The world economy would advance by 2.5% this year, a tad stronger than the "post-crisis low" of 2.4% estimated for 2019. This is the World Bank's prediction contained in its January 2020 'Global Economic Prospects' report, noting that: "While ...

Credit Suisse backs sustainability amid Federer furore

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
Investment bank and financial services powerhouse Credit Suisse has backed sustainability as the dominant investment theme of the coming decade, despite ongoing uproar around its investment in fossil fuels. The prediction comes as Australia's bushfire ...

UniSuper on climate chopping block

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
Market Forces has put UniSuper on the chopping block in a divestment campaign aimed at pressuring the fund to ditch shares in fossil fuel companies. "UniSuper does not have fund-wide exclusions on fossil fuel investments of any kind. Instead, it claims ...

2020: Year of the fragile economy

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
The global economy is toeing a fine line between economic growth and recession, with a number of threats poised to disrupt the already tepid global rally. That's according to the latest report from the World Bank on the global economic outlook for 2020 ...

La Trobe, State Super donate to bushfire appeal

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
La Trobe Financial is set to donate $1 million to the bushfire relief effort, while State Super has said it will donate $10,000 and match each donation made by its employees. La Trobe has announced it will donate $1 million, split between the Salvation ...