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Aussie equities stage recovery

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... year, a 2.2 percentage point improvement from its April forecast. "The All Ordinaries index dropped by 36.8% from its February 2020 peak to its March 2020 low after Australia's shutdown," the report said. "Aggressive monetary and fiscal policy responses ...

Chief economist update: China recovery would have been good for Oz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2020
... contraction, the annual rate of decline in retail sales had steadily eased to -1.8% in June from the sharp 20.5% (yoy) drop in February. Fixed asset investment growth followed the same path of progressive improvement - down by just 3.1% in the year to ...

Chief economist update: Good as gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
... index dropped by 48.7% to a 17-year low of 228.24 points in April from this year's high of 444.63 points recorded in February. Even gold fell by 11.3% between February and March before re-asserting its safe-have quality and rallying by 18.6% to date. ...

US surpasses Asia Pacific for HNWI growth

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... COVID-19 pandemic. The World Federation of Exchanges estimates that COVID-19 erased more than $18 trillion from markets in February and March 2020 before a slight recovery. Capgemini projected a decline of between 6% and 8% in global wealth until the ...

Pengana sales manager departs for Sunshine State

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... team of three, including Daniel Fine, Brett Guerin and recently appointed Conor O'Daly. O'Daly joined Pengana in February this year, and is responsible for engaging with investors on behalf of Pengana's specialist investment managers. Prior ...

Balanced options in the red, but only just

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... benchmark return since the GFC, Dunnin said. Despite the COVID-19 financial crisis savagely impacting fund returns in February and March, the index is effectively back to where it was just 12 months ago, he said. "Superannuation has come through the ...

Colonial First State cops licence conditions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... immediately. The regulator's decision follows an investigation into matters referred to it by the Royal Commission in February 2019. The Royal Commission formed the view that CFSIL's decisions not to bring the migration of certain cohorts of ...

Chant West, Zenith agree on acquisition

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
... agreement for a price of $12 million to acquire Chant West's superannuation consultancy and research business on February 18. However, it retracted its offer at March end, saying the business had been materially impacted since the two reached the ...

Chief economist update: The All Ords' ups, downs and ups

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
... year ago that the All Ordinaries index broke above its all-time high recorded in 2007 before climbing to a new peak in February this year. The mood was good: The US and China have reached a trade deal; Brexit's settled; the Fed succeeded in turning ...

Foreign exchange broker banned

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2020
... engaged with clients to trade contracts for difference (CFDs) and margin foreign exchange contracts (FX contracts) from February 2018 to March 2019. During this period, ASIC found that Marsh made misleading representations to clients, including that ...