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Super fund names new chief investment officer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
... capitalise on innovative and niche investment approaches in ways larger funds can't that set him apart", Proebstl said. The news comes after the fund recently made several structural changes to its investment approach including converting all Australian ...

Chief economist update: Equity markets struck by coronavirus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
... flu in April 2009 prompted horror headlines. For reference, the S&P 500 finished that year with a 23.5% gain. That time, news.com revived old archives citing a 2006 paper titled Global Macroeconomic Consequences of Pandemic Influenza where, based on ...

Chief economist update: More from Morrison

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
... wallet wider and announced a number of measures to help the recovery of small businesses devastated by the recent bushfire. News.com. au reports: "Loans of up to $500,000 will be offered for business that have [sic] suffered significant asset loss or ...

Light on horizon for global economy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
... activity and global trade are bottoming out, a broad-based shift toward accommodative monetary policy, intermittent favorable news on US-China trade negotiations, and diminished fears of a no-deal Brexit, leading to some retreat from the risk-off environment ...

Analysts remain wary as ASX breaks 7000

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
The S&P/ASX 200 Index has broken the 7000 mark following news of Trump and China finally signing a trade deal, but analysts remain wary of the new record high. The Index gained 47 points on Thursday to finish at 7041.8, setting a new record high for ...

Climate crisis tops list of risks for 2020s

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
... Australia, storms and tornadoes striking the US, torrential rainfall in Dubai, a volcano erupting in the Philippines, and news that the world's oceans reached new temperature highs in 2019. The sobering report released by the World Economic Forum ...

Better retirement income products needed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... people with a defined benefit pension or a lifetime annuity reporting the lowest levels of worry. In perhaps disheartening news for financial advisers, whether a person received advice did not have any significant impact on levels of worry about retirement ...

Chief economist update: Aussie Black Friday spend will end Saturday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
With the bushfire inferno still raging, Australia needs all the good news it could get... and it's arrived. The All Ordinaries index surged by 0.7% to a new record high of 7041.9 points and the Australian dollar appreciated by 0.6% to US$0.6901 ...

Chief economist update: Brexit - the news that was

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
... allows the bill to sail through to the House of Lords where peers will begin line by line scrutiny next week." This the latest news from The Independent, headed "Boris Johnson news: Brexit legislation passes Commons..." News? Brexit has become less of ...

The super choice of the super wealthy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JAN 2020
... sufficient support is both unusual and a plaudit for Harris Farms," Roy Morgan said. Overall, Roy Morgan said the economic news is gloomy, due to the slowing economy and slowdown in consumer spending. ABS data released last week showed that consumer ...