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ASFA calls for super fairness

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2021
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has recommended the government remove the indexation of the transfer balance cap and to cap balances at $5 million to balance the system. In its pre-budget submission, ASFA focused its recommendations ...

Chief economist update: Nikkei not so fine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2021
... to Toni Basil for re-wording the lyrics to her 1981 hit "Mickey", but anyone watching the rise and rise of the Nikkei-225 index will understand. The Japanese stockmarket's benchmark equity index rose by 16.0% last year - a very close second to the ...

Antares promotes on equities team

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2021
... ASX-listed stocks outside the 20 largest by market cap. It has returned 4.8% p.a. above the benchmark (S&P/ASX 200 Total Return Index excluding the companies listed in the S&P/ASX 20 Total Return Index) since May 2015 inception. One year returns for ...

Chief economist update: The US inflation dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2021
... measured. Data at the end of December 2020 shows headline CPI inflation at 1.3%; core CPI inflation at 1.6%; headline PCE price index at 1.3%; and, core PCE price index at 1.5%. While measured US inflation have certainly firmed from the lows recorded ...

Lifecycle products cost members: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2021
... Benchmarking Report found that single strategy MySuper products at least matched, and often beat, the lifecycle MySuper index across all age groups over the three and five-year performance periods to 30 June 2020. "While the best lifecycle products perform ...

Fund manager expands, hires two executives

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021
... energy and hardware. "Since our inception nineteen months ago, the fund is up 67%, outperforming our benchmark MSCI AC World Index return of 13.7% over the same period. Our annualised performance of 38.2% is also well ahead of our internal return objective ...

Super fund ESG targets lack clarity: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
... resolutions. The report notes that most of the companies responsible for most of the emissions in the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index are yet to commit to substantive emissions reduction targets by 2030. This suggests that there is ample room for productive ...

Chief economist update: Overvaluation tests FOMO and TINA trades

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
Wall Street's down. Repeat, Wall Street's down! The CBOE VIX index - the fear gauge - jumped by 9.5% in the last trading day of the first month of 2021 to 33.09 points, marking the highest since the renewed COVID-19 outbreak in Europe that subsequently ...

You can't hate Trump but love the S&P 500: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021
... Democrats. The above is true for popular broad-market ETFs like iShares' IVV and State Street's SPY which track the index. Both are listed on the ASX and available to local investors with $3.6 billion and $56 million of local money at December ...

Gender diversity has a way to go: Research

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021
Only 10 publicly listed companies in Australia have made it onto the Bloomberg 2021 Gender-Equality Index (GEI), despite a record number of companies that disclosed data. From financial services, companies that made the index include Commonwealth Bank ...