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What you read in 2020

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020
... tracking crude oil futures, the BetaShares Crude Oil ETF, and were stung hard when WTI May contracts slipped into negative territory. It's assumed investors expected oil prices to stabilise after an OPEC deal to cut production by 30% due to oversupply ...

FS team picks: The top stories for 2020

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR, KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
... country's only ETF tracking crude oil futures, and were stung hard when WTI May contracts slipped into negative territory in Monday's trading. BetaShares Crude Oil Index ETF (OOO) tracks an index composed of WTI crude oil future contracts, focusing ...

Charter Hall adds three properties

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020
... for $28.1 million. CLW recently completed the acquisition of a 49.9% stake the Parap Tavern, a pub in Darwin, Northern Territory for $9.8 million. CLW fund manager Avi Anger said Bunnings Caboolture and the Parap Tavern acquisitions increase the proportion ...

Dollarmites faces more backlash

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020
... be a better way to teach our kids about money that doesn't involve kickbacks," she said. "Australia's other state and territory governments should follow Victoria's lead and kick CBA out of the classrooms." The rate on the CBA Youthsaver account has ...

CFM fund to wind up

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
The French quant manager is shutting an Australian fund, after returns slipped into negative territory and fund size stagnates. The CFM Institutional Systematic Diversified used a multi-strategy quantitative approach to target positive returns over ...

Count Financial targets growth with new hire

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
... Queensland. Stephen Carlton joins from NAB/MLC where he was business growth manager for Queensland and the Northern Territory growing the number of advisers and practices within NAB's self-employed licensees. Prior to joining NAB, Carlton was head of ...

Aussie dividends lag on global stage

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
... with payouts rising 9.9% on an underlying basis to $30.3 billion, the second highest quarterly total on record from the territory.

Retirement income failing Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander people

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
... superannuation as wage garnishing, as opposed to mandatory savings. This is because of the historical context of state and territory governments garnishing wages from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Those who view the superannuation system ...

Chief economist update: Letter V going viral in Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
... gains in production, new orders, sales and exports. The AiG performance of services index also swung back into expansion territory in October to a reading of 51.4 - the highest since November 2019. According to AiG: "All activity indicators were positive ...

Public servants caught in SG bungle

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2020
... payments spanning a decade, affecting more than 56,000 employees who are owed tens and millions of dollars. The Northern Territory government owes about $39.5 million in superannuation contributions to the majority of current and past workers affected ...