Let the speculation over who will lead the $206 billion Future Fund begin.
Jennifer Duke
Economics correspondent
Jennifer Duke is the associate editor for Capital Brief. She is a Walkley Award winning journalist with more than a decade's experience, specialising in economics, business and finance. She has worked for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age as economics correspondent and as a business journalist.
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The Australian insurance industry is struggling with working out how to properly measure and price cyber risk.
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We've managed to move to monthly inflation data releases - why not GDP data too?
And this time around the prominent fund manager wants to form an unlikely alliance to fight changes to the dividend imputation system — with the federal Greens.
Stephen Halmarick has witnessed plenty of economic challenges during his career. The struggles young Australians are facing in the housing market is up there with the biggest.
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In her first in-depth interview since the Optus cyberattack, CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin tells Capital Brief she's ready to move on.
The big four bank's chief economist wants Australia to look beyond the US and UK for ideas.
"If we can work with TPG, that would be great," Kelly Bayer Rosmarin said.
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