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Chief economist update: Australia's not jobless recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2021
... itself, a measure of workers' optimism over their employment prospects. This is backed by the Westpac-Melbourne Institute index of consumer sentiment that showed "unemployment expectations" dropped by 3.8% over the month and by 15.0% from a year ...

Chief economist update: Amber alert

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
... After dropping to three-year lows in March last year, US equities have rocketed higher and higher to new highs. The S&P 500 index has risen by 75.8% to date from the pandemic-induced sell-off last March. The DJIA's up 69.2% over the same period with ...

Chief economist update: Red metal turning red hot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2021
... and business restrictions. The rally in copper prices has also been driven by the US dollar's depreciation. The US dollar index (versus major currencies) has now fallen by 11.4% from the 17-year high it recorded in March last year - which, in itself ...

Industry fund awards $60m small caps mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
... Fund returned 20.1% in the year ending January, compared to 5.38% from its benchmark S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Accumulation Index over the same period. Three-year returns for the strategy are 12% p.a. to the benchmark's 6.69% p.a. over the period. ...

Challenger wins $200m mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
... savings for current and former New South Wales government employees, picked Challenger for the allocation. Challenger's Index Plus equities product includes an agreed contractual margin over a benchmark index for no management fee. "By guaranteeing an ...

To keep or not to keep JobKeeper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
... March quarter 2021". Because of this, consumers and businesses are growing more confident. The Westpac-Melbourne Institute index of consumer sentiment increased by 1.9% in February from 107.0 in January. Confident consumers - with more money, more savings ...

BetaShares to launch new fund

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021
... flexible working arrangements, video conferencing, online shopping and digital media consumption. The ETF will track an index of listed cloud computing companies involved in computing services, servers, storage, databases, networking, software and analytics. ...

Chief economist update: Money plus confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021
... Fiscal money, RBA money and confidence - both among Australian consumers and businesses. The Westpac-Melbourne Institute index of consumer sentiment increased by 1.9% in February from 107.0 in January. Although it's lower than the 10-year high reading ...

Local managed funds fee revenues shrinks

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2021
Wholesale managed funds reaped $4.5 billion in fee revenue in 2020 but average fees were down 6bps, according to new Rainmaker research. Rainmaker analysed more than 1000 managed funds which had $588 billion in total assets. The average fee wholesale ...

BlackRock appoints APAC lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2021
... Executive Committee. She previously led the iShares business in the EMEA region and was head of global clients, ETF and index investments. She has been with BlackRock for about eight years, having first joined in 2013 from Citigroup where was global ...