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Market momentum to continue: ASI Conference

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021
... said the global recovery impinges on the COVID-19 vaccine and maintaining high vaccination rates. "It's going to be pretty rough in the current period whether there is going to be a recession or not, but the big hit will be in the current quarter. ...

Super, ASIC beneficiaries of advice challenges: Hearing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2021
... about how much money you've got to invest, but rather whether you can afford to pay an adviser's fee. "That sounds pretty perverted to me," Wilson said.

UniSuper's O'Sullivan on what's next

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2021
... in the next couple of years. "[In 2017] we still wanted to retain the focus on the higher education sector...And it was pretty easy to get approval for that. But if we had said let's open up to everybody, that may have been seen as a dilution in ...

Catholic, Equip SFT to see Fairley exit

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2021
... opportunity to bring Catholic Super in and, at the same time, have an opportunity to bring a skilled chair on to follow me was pretty compelling," he said. The joint venture model which created Togethr Trustees was made possible by the fund's extended ...

Chief economist update: Confidence contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
... OECD's 1.3 percentage point upward revision for Australian GDP growth this year to 4.5% in the year 2021, which I'm pretty sure factored in the end of JobKeeper and coronavirus supplements to welfare recipients at the end of this month. She'll ...

Super fund buys stake in retirement village

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2021
... recently that the super fund is focused on building its unlisted infrastructure portfolio. "As a fund we feel we're in pretty good shape. We did a lot of work to figure out what risk exposures and liquidities were," he said. "We really wanted to ...

Aware to focus on unlisteds over equities

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2021
... Graham said Aware was able to bounce back, finishing the year around 5% above the benchmark. "As a fund we feel we're in pretty good shape. We did a lot of work to figure out what risk exposures and liquidities were," he said. "We really wanted to ...

Chief economist update: RBA extends QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2021
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) painted a pretty picture of the Australian economy in its first board meeting for 2021. RBA governor Philip Lowe's statement at the conclusion of the Australian central bank's February meeting was optimistic ...

Super fund ESG targets lack clarity: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
... it impossible for members to understand what's being reported or do any meaningful comparison between funds, and that's pretty poor," Gocher said. "You'd think standardising and mandating that kind of data reporting would be something simple to do. Most ...

Chief economist update: East and west at crossroads

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
... quotas, and/or increased tariffs on "Made in Australia" beef, barley and seafood, timber, wine, lobsters, and cotton. I'm pretty sure the politburo's scouring through its shopping list of Australian items it could do without as I type, and would ...