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Healthcare outperforms as financials plummet

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020
... sectors plummet. However, S&P Dow Jones Indices senior director of global equity indices Michael Orzano said it's a trend that has been building over the last two decades. This year alone, he said, healthcare has been able to sustain 10% in gains ...

APRA-regulated fund or SMSF: It's all the same

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... whilst we have been growing as a sector every year, our net establishments have been declining so that was a reverse in the trend," Fleming said. Fleming said that when concerns over COVID-19 hit, around January and February this year, the ATO saw an ...

Trading platforms see record use

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic saw Australia's equity markets become a hive of activity throughout March, as self-directed investors moved to protect their portfolios from the crisis' economic fallout. Investment platform Self Wealth released its quarterly ...

BlackRock bullish on China

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... rebound in income growth to high single digits and high homeownership rates aiding discretionary spending. "The urbanisation trend is another catalyst as one-third of China's population remains rural and migration to cities implies higher wages and spending," ...

Not at the bottom, yet: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
Retail investors believe the market has further to fall before it hits the bottom, yet remain optimistic about the future. Latest Investment Trends research shows retail investors hold a positive view of the future, despite feeling that we haven't yet ...

Self-isolation to accelerate secular trends

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
The world's new reality will soon be defined by social distancing and self-isolation. And while that might be sad for most of us, some stand to benefit incredibly from the new normal. Speaking with Financial Standard, Antipodes Partners chief investment ...

Chant West sale hits roadblock

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2020
... Limited delivered a positive EBITDA in [sic] for the first half of FY2020 and we remain confident it will continue this trend in the second half of the year." Chant West's half year results to December end reported on February 21 show a revenue of $4.6 ...

Chief economist update: Honey, COVID-19 got me sacked

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
... ended March 21, that it says "dwarf every other week in history, as can be seen by comparing the projection against the trend in initial claims back to 1967". This is around a million more than the US Labor Department's official estimate of 3.3 million ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 eating into jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
... ended March 21, that it says "dwarf every other week in history, as can be seen by comparing the projection against the trend in initial claims back to 1967". "For scale, consider that 3.4 million Americans moving from employment to unemployment would ...

Times of turmoil create opportunities: deVere

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2020
With global stock markets rallying overnight, the chief executive of an independent financial advisory firm has pointed to key sectors that are benefiting from the spreading COVID-19 pandemic. deVere Group founder and chief executive Nigel Green said ...