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Stimulus, ERS boost financial comfort

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... boosted Australian financial comfort to record highs despite the impact of COVID-19. The ME Bank Household Financial Comfort Index improved by 2% to 5.89 out of 10 during the six months to December 2020. This is 5% higher than December 2019 or prior ...

Senator calls for super funds to stop shorting

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... required for short selling is also used for many other purposes such as derivatives hedging, balance sheet optimisation, index fair value and dual-listing relative value transactions." Rennick did not clarify whether he was concerned about funds taking ...

Global investor confidence suffers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... Global investor confidence has decreased since the start of the year, with large drops in Asia and Europe dragging down the index, according to State Street. The Global Investor Confidence Index decreased to 91.9, down 8.9 points from January's revised ...

Australian equities funds downgraded

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... AB Managed Volatility Equities were all upgraded to silver from bronze. The research house upgraded VanEck for its "sound index construction", Eley Griffiths for its increased confidence in its ability to outperform and Dimensional Australian Value Trust ...

Industry fund CIO resigns

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2021
The investments chief of a not-for-profit fund will leave after five years in the post. LUCRF Super chief investment officer Leigh Gavin will stay until Easter with the fund, sister publication Industry Moves first confirmed. Gavin joined LUCRF in May ...

Most ethical companies revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021
... list of the world's most ethical publicly traded companies, and has claimed that these companies outperformed a comparable index by 7.1% over the last five years. "Honorees integrate ethics and values with corporate strategy. They speak up, are transparent ...

Chief economist update: Australia's virtuous cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021
... vaccine reached Australian shores - was that both business and consumer confidence were back. The NAB business confidence index jumped by five percentage points to a reading of +10 in January - above its long-run average of +6 and despite lower than ...

VanEck readies new ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
... approval under the ticker CLNE, for The VanEck Vectors Global Clean Energy ETF. CLNE tracks the S&P Global Clean Energy Index, which has been around since 2007. The underlying index includes 30 companies from around the world, including clean energy ...

Vanguard finds dirty assets in ESG fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
... after a review turned up holdings that investors were told were excluded. Vanguard Ethically Conscious Global Aggregate Bond Index invests in about 4500 fixed income instruments and is based on a joint benchmark from Bloomberg Barclays and MSCI. MSCI ...

Aussie dividends slump 40%

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2021
... publicly listed companies have either cut or withheld their dividends during 2020 as a result of COVID-19, a global dividend index shows. Between April and December 2020, Aussie firms either cut or cancelled dividend payments nearly 40%, according to ...