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NZ looks to recognise qualified Aussie advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2020
Australian financial advisers can potentially work in New Zealand without meeting the country's qualifications as early as 15 March 2021. New Zealand's financial services watchdog the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) is proposing to recognise Australian ...

Chief economist update: The recession is over

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2020
... implicitly told a Senate Estimates virtual hearing when he said :"At the moment it looks like the September quarter for the country probably recorded positive growth rather than slightly negative." The Australian economy fulfilled the technical definition ...

Chief economist update: A V, a W and an L

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
... PMI deteriorated to 46.6 from 46.9 in September - the weakest in three months. Still, growing cases in infections in the country could prevent the L-shaped recovery in Japan from becoming a U.

AMP Capital bets on AI

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
... reducing our carbon footprint, taking us closer to our net zero carbon aspirations and 2030 Sustainability strategy." Head of Country, Australia & New Zealand at BrainBox AI Ben Gill said he was very happy to be partnering with AMP Capital to make the ...

Chief economist update: The UK's new plan... after two plans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
... businesses and workers. "This is our plan. A plan for jobs, for businesses, for the regions, for the economy, for the country. A plan to support the British people." The new "plan" followed his "Plan for Jobs" scheme announced in early July this year ...

AustralianSuper backs cobalt miner

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
The industry fund was a cornerstone investor in an ASX-listed mining stock's $45 million equity raise. AustralianSuper invested $18.5 million in Jervois Mining, representing nearly 40% of the total raise. It bought at 20.5 cents per JRV share, which ...

Chief economist update: Japan's second wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... also want to consider the rising prospect that the new prime minister would declare another state of emergency in the country as confirmed cases of infection continue to increase and are now exponentially greater than when it was first declared back ...

Australia among strongest on governance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... governance factors had on corporate financial performance differed depending on the strengths of rules and practices in the country the businesses were based in. For example, Austria, Canada, Finland and France were found to have strong governance practices ...

Chief economist update: Middle Kingdom on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... back shopping at shops that are no longer locked down. Still, we are all in this together. China, or any other "cleared" country, cannot afford to let its guard down for any nation would never be totally virus-free until all nations are.

Chief economist update: Lowe taking interest rates lower

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
... activity we judged that there was little to be gained from further monetary easing. The solutions to the problems the country faced lay elsewhere. As the economy opens up, though, it is reasonable to expect that further monetary easing would get more ...