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Lack of diversity major business risk: SSGA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
Racial and ethnic inequity is a systemic risk that "threatens lives, companies, communities, and our economy", according to one of the largest global fund managers. State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) president and chief executive Cyrus Taraporevala ...

ISA calls SG increase delay a tax grab

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
... increase could be lost in higher taxes and reductions in other government support payments. The statement from ISA is in response to an article published in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age which alleged that the government has a "secret" plan to ...

Chief economist update: The virus, the vaccine, the variant

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
"Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water." - Jaws About this time last year, the world was alerted - but only mildly alarmed - at yet another SARS-like disease spreading in Wuhan, China (the first confirmed case reported on December ...

Chief economist update: No pandemic on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
Pandemic? What pandemic? The S&P500 index the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 2020 at record highs despite the US topping the list of countries with most total cases of coronavirus infections (21.3 million or roughly 25% of the world's total) ...

Super funds back COVID-19 preventative drug

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021
... stimulating the innate immune system, the first line of defence against the invasion of pathogens. By boosting the immune response at the primary site of infection, the ability of the COVID-19 virus to infect the animals and replicate was dramatically ...

Class action launched against OnePath

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 JAN 2021
... campaign. Filed in the Federal Court in December 2020, this makes the fifth class action launched by the law firm in response to the revelations arising from the Royal Commission. The class action alleges that OnePath Custodians breached its duties as ...

ASIC to review impact of ASX outage

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020
... evening flagged it will conduct a review in 2021 on how market participants have adapted their systems and processes in response to the outage and if any, broader market adjustments might be necessary to reduce the impact of any future incidents. "ASIC ...

APRA hands down self-assessment report

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 DEC 2020
... the pandemic, but acknowledged there is still room for improvement. A number of stakeholders have also commended APRA's response to the coronavirus pandemic in the recently released 2019-20 Performance Framework Report. One area highlighted was APRA ...

Equity Trustees reports on 2020 giving

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020
... tough times which were the hallmarks of 2020. "This has been clearly demonstrated by the establishment of two Disaster Response Trusts after the summer bushfires, which are designed to support those impacted by the disaster, by providing our clients ...

Missing Caddick's mansion on the line

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020
... Sydney's Dover Heights was reported to be worth $7 million. ASIC is also cracking down on unlicensed financial advice, in response to the Caddick case. "Since March 2020, ASIC has seen a significant escalation in complaints about unlicensed conduct ...