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Goldman chief faces backlash over DJ set

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... Goldman Sachs has copped criticism after he performed a DJ set to a crowd of over 2000 people in the Hamptons, as cases of COVID-19 in the US near 4.3 million. David Solomon, or DJ D-Sol, opened for electronic duo The Chainsmokers at a "drive-in" concert ...

Investment strategies need to change: GSFM

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... partners Payden & Rygel, Munro Partners and Redpoint Investment Management. GSFM said economic uncertainty existed before the COVID-19 pandemic, but investment performance will depend on more than economic fundamentals. Stephen Miller, investment strategist ...

SMSFA, FSC call for infrastructure investment access

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... represent more than $1.7 trillion of the superannuation pool, have joined forces to present this policy to the National COVID-19 Commission Advisory Board and National Cabinet. SMSF Association chief executive John Maroney said: "It has always been a ...

Aussie investors unhappy with pandemic performance

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... were satisfied with the performance of their risk management processes but 35% are making changes to risk as a result of COVID-19. On the other hand, 33% of investors already invested in distressed or opportunistic strategies that seek to benefit from ...

Chief economist update: No Karens in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... spread of this new respiratory pathogen has changed the course of a rapidly escalating and deadly epidemic... This decline in COVID-19 cases across China is real". If China was able to put "more than half a billion people under partial or total lockdown" ...

Hume calls out ERS fake news

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
... suggested that she'd like to see some reform in the way mental health claims are handled by life insurers, acknowledging that COVID-19 was likely to have a serious mental health impact over the short and long term. "Rather than having lump sum TPD claims ...

Chief economist update: Second wave comes to Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
... accommodative financial conditions and the government's economic measures"... "based on the assumption that a second wave of COVID-19 will not occur on a large scale". But the Kyodo News' latest report indicates that it may be starting to happen. ...

What to expect from the Retirement Income Review

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
... breaks are skewed towards high income earners which is arguably [at odds with] the purposes of super, particularly in a post-COVID work, with government accumulating substantial deficits," Coates said. "It is hard to see how super tax breaks that are ...

Super to lose $3tn by 2040

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
Australia's superannuation industry will have foregone $3 trillion in growth by 2040 as a result of COVID-19, according to new analysis. The super industry was projected to hit $10 trillion over the next two decades, but Rainmaker Information has ...

Value to be found in childcare stocks

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
... support to the childcare industry throughout the pandemic has led to an undervaluation of childcare stock prices despite the COVID-19 surge in Victoria, according to latest research from Morningstar. Morningstar equity strategist Gareth James believes ...