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State Street warns of dot-com parallels

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
State Street Global Advisors has warned the current rally in equities markets parallels that of the dot-com boom, as price to earnings multiples continue to expand. Since the March 23 low, the ASX All Technology Index, which features the likes of buy-now-pay-later ...

AIA Australia appoints behavioural economics lead

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... key disciplines for understanding human behaviour and decision making. It is embedded in our market-leading AIA Vitality health and wellbeing program, which incentivises members to understand and improve their health over time," an AIA spokesperson said. ...

Top equities managers revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
Former Ausbil microcap managers Tony Waters and Chris Prunty have come out on top of Mercer's Australian Shares Investment Manager Performance ranking, after their QVG Capital Long Short fund returned 29.3% for the year. Hyperion Australian Growth and ...

Growth outplays value: Frontier

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
Growth continued to outperform value according to a new study by Frontier Advisers looking at the performance of fund managers in the final quarter of 20109/20. In a note released to its clients, Frontier reported that growth-focused managers outstripped ...

Super-backed specialist centre opens in Hobart

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
... address significant social challenges like dementia, and also helps create jobs and opportunities for our members who work in health and community services." The industry super fund has made strides in impact investment in the last five years, launching ...

Research slams ADL definition

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
... definitions have a declined claim rate of 60%, whereas only 12% of claims were rejected under standard TPD definitions. In mental health claims cases the numbers were even worse with 77% rejected under ADL definitions. The regulator suggested, but did ...

Global public debt to reach 101.5% of GDP: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
... COVID-19 pandemic. In the face of a sharp decline in global output, a massive fiscal response has been necessary to increase health capacity, replace lost household income and prevent large-scale bankruptcies. However, the IMF said, the policy response ...

Australians without advice struggle in pandemic: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... Australians was also less likely to have been impacted by the COVID-19 crisis, as were their relationships, mental and physical health. That's compared to almost half (48.8%) of those surveyed without advisers saying their mental health suffered as a ...

Chief economist update: We're all Victorians now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... 6.9% currently as he announced a A$534 million support package - "including cash grants for struggling businesses, mental health support for business owners and relief for tourism operators who can no longer work on Melbourne-based visitors for holidays" ...

Private equity weathers COVID-19 crisis: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
New research from asset consultant Willis Towers Watson has found that private equity investments have weathered the impact of the COVID-19 financial crisis, despite a subdued environment for exit deals in the first half of the year. In a survey of ...