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Australian Ethical overhauls longstanding fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2021
... launch the fund bought shares in Woolworths so it could vote in favour of a resolution to mandate $1 maximum bet limits on poker machines operated by the retail giant. As reported by FS Sustainability (then The Sustainability Report ) at the time, the ...

NAFTA's dead, welcome USMCA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2018
... 500 index gained 0.4% following the news, not least because it removed one source of uncertainty in the game of trade war poker that's being played around the world, with Trump as the dealer. This "win" would further encourage Trump to apply the ...

Chief economist update: No target sign on India's back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
Trump and Xi's game of tariff poker goes on. Whether it's Trump's "art of the deal" tactic or a true blue (fallacious) plan to make "America Great Again," only Trump knows - problem is, China's Supremo isn't blinking. To be sure, the prospect of an ...

Chief economist update: Japan's other war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... applying this dictum in the midst of the current trade war threat. While the US and China are in the midst of a game of poker - I'll see your US$50 billion "Made in China" proposed tariffs with a US$50 billion "reciprocal tariffs" on American made products ...

Trump and Kim go ballistic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017
... and fury" and raise you Guam. Yes Virginia, that's Trump and Kim going ballistic once again as they play high stakes ICBM poker. Who will be the first to blink and fold? From what we already know of each players' character and temperament neither Donald ...

Majority of Australians without financial plan

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2016
... with the majority of Australians continuing to identify as risk adverse (55%). The four financial personality types are: Poker master (12% of respondents) - more willing to take substantial risks for significant gains, 46% are female and 54% are men ...

PROFILE: Stanford Brown chief executive Jonathan Hoyle

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
There are two things that arguably led Jonathan Hoyle to where he is now: Michael Lewis's autobiography, Liar's Poker, and the sight of fresh blood. The chief executive of Stanford Brown was 20 years old and studying biochemistry when he picked up a ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
... volumes quite low. Locally on Tuesday, the ANZ-Roy Morgan weekly consumer confidence index is released. And in equities news, poker machine supplier Aristocrat Leisure releases its half year results and Boart Longyear and Chinalco Yunnan Copper Resources ...

Murray's FSI: consumers win round one

ALEX DUNNIN  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
Everything is political and especially so with the super-charged high stakes poker game on display in the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) where the battle lines were quickly drawn between financial product providers versus consumers. And after listening ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... Meanwhile, the Supreme Court of Victoria is expected to hand down its judgment in Tabcorp and Tatt's appeal in the state poker machine levy case. In Australia, the market on Wednesday closed higher after disappointing economic growth figures increased ...
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