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Official recession not that scary: Economists

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... restrictions on households and businesses causes significant economic damage," ACCI chief executive James Pearson said. "So far, household incomes have been shielded from the economic pain of the COVID-19 restrictions by the massive amount of government ...

Super remains grossly inequitable: Per Capita

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020
... superannuation is among the world's best retirement savings scheme, and the introduction of the Superannuation Guarantee in 1993 was by far the greatest policy intervention to improve retirement incomes for women," it said. "It is imperative that superannuation ...

Industry funds triumph July performance

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020
UniSuper and AustralianSuper have come out on top of the leaderboard for personal and workplace superannuation over the longer term but couldn't keep up in the last 12 months, according to the latest figures from Rainmaker Information. UniSuper's default ...

Female fund managers outperform men

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020
Funds managed by female portfolio managers are outperforming those managed by men amid the pandemic-induced market turbulence, according to Goldman Sachs research. Some 43% of female-managed funds have outperformed their benchmark year to date, compared ...

Labor says yes, economists say no to SG rise

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... should be deferred argued that now is "not a time to encourage saving" and that in the current circumstances we should be "far more worried about spending power today than in the golden years of present-day workers".

Investors will be forced into equities: DeepData Analytics

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... into a decade of elevated volatility and low returns so managing risk is going to be key to higher long term returns." So far this year global markets have seen wild swings of volatility, including the US S&P500 which saw the shortest bear market on ...

Argo Infrastructure posts $9.3m loss, but increases dividends

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020
... both a top-down and bottom-up analysis approach. While the investment management company may have faced a difficult year so far, it has still outperformed the benchmark. "During an extremely volatile and challenging period for investment markets, the ...

Industry fund adds to board

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020
A $5.2 billion profit-to-member superannuation fund has appointed a new director to its board. Allison Harker joins the board of Prime Super as a director, bringing with her financial services, human resources and primary industries expertise. Her early ...

Is your CEO smart or just lucky?

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
... performance, such as market-wide conditions that are outside of the chief executive's control) from performance, the reality is far from the theory. The academic says, chief executives are rewarded for market luck but not penalised as heavily for ...

Chief economist update: Japan economy tanks depsite looser restrictions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
... nations, Japan delivered substantial amounts of fiscal and monetary stimuli to mitigate the fallout from the pandemic. So far, it's not looking good. The au Jibun Bank Japan PMI survey shows private sector activity remains in contraction in August ...