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Apostle launches high yield credit fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2022
... positioned to provide stability and capital preservation. There are good quality sub-investment grade bonds trading at historically cheap levels, and we see this as a fantastic opportunity to be entering the market with a new credit fund." "The fund ...

The unintended consequences of the performance test

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2022
... Chris believes the test has changed the way in which super funds consider and ultimately undertake mergers, saying historically mergers have occurred based on strong synergies, aligned investment philosophies and similar membership. However, as more ...

CPI rises, IMF lowers global outlook

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2022
... 0.4% and 0.7% respective downgrades from April. "The resulting synchronised monetary tightening across countries is historically unprecedented, and its effects are expected to bite, with global growth slowing next year and inflation decelerating," the ...

Australia's size problem: VanEck

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2022
... heavyweights make factor investing in domestic markets an ineffectual strategy, according to VanEck research. While historically factor investing has achieved excess market returns over the long term in global equity strategies, VanEck says the Australian ...

Is the wage price spiral narrative a lie?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2022
... will elevate inflation levels, the analysis said such fears typically ignore the fact that real wage growth is at historically low levels and has been for some time. The Australia Institute suggested wage growth clearly has not been the driving force ...

Growth scare likely during second half of 2022: Report

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2022
... think the market will price in a higher risk of recession before the potential relief of a soft landing," it read. Historically, when inflation has risen above target, the amount of central bank tightening delivered to bring down price pressures results ...

Australian corporate debt dwindles: Janus Henderson

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2022
... nadir." Sivapalan continued: "Delinquencies and defaults of non-government assets are almost certain to lift from their historically low levels when the policy support enjoyed over the past few years is withdrawn." "With this in mind, avoiding the temptation ...

Westpac outlines new social initiatives

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2022
... lending growth plan, we will also be lifting women's participation across our own lending workforce, where females have historically been underrepresented in lending roles," he said.Employees will have access to a development and upskilling program to ...

No more changes to risk commissions: ClearView

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2022
... simple and there's little to no profit to be made. "Advisers are often the ones most impacted by regulatory change but historically their voice has been drowned out by the large institutions and their industry bodies," ClearView managing director Simon ...

US Fed indicates several more half-percentage rate rises

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022
... persistent high inflation. "The problem is compounded when it starts from a long way back coming off a period of historically high levels of monetary stimulus and where "aggressive" counts as getting the real policy rate back close to zero," he said. ...