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Property winners, losers of COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2020
... decisions of the last 5-10 years will drive performance and we are likely to see more differentiation than at any point since the GFC," Everett said. "However, new opportunities will present themselves and active management remains important. The key ...

Sovereign investors keen on gold, infrastructure

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... relative to fixed income and as an overall proportion of asset allocation: 26% (equities) versus 34% (fixed income). Adding on GFC lessons and the lack of withdrawal imperatives, they were well positioned going into the crisis, according to the report ...

Balanced options in the red, but only just

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... funds with daily unit prices. This is the fourth lowest return in 20 years, and the first negative benchmark return since the GFC, Dunnin said. Despite the COVID-19 financial crisis savagely impacting fund returns in February and March, the index is ...

Advisers switch platforms amid pandemic

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... the global pandemic," Investment Trends research director Recep Peker said. "Not only has platform switching reached a post-GFC high, planners are also broadening the range of platforms they use. "In the face of pandemic-induced market volatility, financial ...

History is repeating itself: Zenith

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2020
... similarities between the Australian equity market drawdowns and subsequent recoveries of COVID-19 and the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), COVID-19 has proven to be the GFC in fast-forward. It said during this period we have seen the fastest bear market ...

Challenger raising $300m, to add IG bonds

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
... compelling risk adjusted returns. Illiquidity premiums are attractive," it said, adding that it captured similar opportunities post GFC to expand its return on equity. Challenger's life business is targeting normalised, pre-tax, ROE of about 14.25% ...

COVID-19 brings trading boom

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
... has never seen such interest from Australia's mum and dad investors. "It appears the market's rebound from the lows in the GFC, is fresh in their memories and there's a determination to make sure they don't miss out on any rally," Dale said. The nabTrade ...

VanEck makes case for equal weight investing

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... road to recovery, VanEck examines three separate periods of recovery - the period following the 2001 dotcom burst, the 2008 GFC and the 2015-16 Greek debt crisis. "The paper finds that during these recovery periods, equal weighting outperformed the benchmark ...

Profound uncertainty remains: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... crisis is unlike anything the world has seen before." Gopinath labelled the COVID-19 crisis as "truly global" saying even the GFC had a less severe effect on global output. "For the first time since the Great Depression, both advanced and emerging market ...

The secret to neutralising sequencing risk

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
... 'growth' risk exposures, investors were reminded that all growth risk is sold in 'risk off' environments," he said. "As in the GFC, 2020 first-quarter performance saw most asset classes fall and diversification benefits disappear in a systemic 'risk-off' ...