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Australian fund regulation below average: Morningstar

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... mutual fund investors across 26 markets, assigning grades of top, above average, average, below average and bottom to each country. The Netherlands, Sweden and UK were the most investor-friendly markets in terms of regulation and taxation. While Belgium ...

ESG performing positively: MSCI

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... contributions, in its SRI index. In EM, the underperformance of the ESG Universal and SRI indexes was due to unintended country and currency exposures, especially for the MSCI EM SRI Index. "While the MSCI SRI Index methodology is constructed to mitigate ...

Property takes $237m hit

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
Total property sales across the country have dropped at least 30% after COVID-19 cases started increasing in March, with sales down $237 million compared to the same period last year. Total sales in Sydney have dropped 79% (-$454 million), while sales ...

BNY Mellon IM country head departs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
BNY Mellon Investment Management's local country head has left after about five years with the company. Phil Filippelis headed distribution and client services for the business in Australia. Denis Gambi, who joined the company three years ago from ...

COVID-19 will bite into credit ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
Nothing focuses the mind as the choice between life and death. This choice has been thrust onto Planet Earth's population by the coronavirus pandemic. So much so, that men, women and children of the world are giving up - willingly or grudgingly ...

Billionaires club rakes in cash amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... wealth has grown substantially. Between 2006 and 2018 alone, nearly 7% of the real increase in America's wealth went to the country's 400 wealthiest households. "If this inequality isn't treated with both short and long-term tax reforms and oversight ...

Markets react as antiviral drug disappoints

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... According to Johns Hopkins University, there are 867,459 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the US, while deaths in the country near 50,000. However, IG market analyst Kyle Rodda said the disappointing antiviral drug news shouldn't have surprised ...

Chief economist update: Turns out Brexit was heaven

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... remain in place for longer. The impact on economic activity is just as bad as the cases of infection and deaths in the country. The IHS Markit/ CIPS Flash UK Composite PMI dropped to an all-time low reading of 12.9 in April, with the services sector ...

Calls for super funds, government to collaborate on energy security

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... you have capacity, you still need to move it [refined oil] around Australia and not [have to be] subject to a foreign country or a company's decision on whether or not to do it," Blackburn said. Blackburn says while the new reserve is a good start ...

Aussie ETF investors got oil bets wrong before crash

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
Australians last week poured $35 million in the 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 ...