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Chief economist update: The devil's in the headline US payrolls number details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
... May, missing consensus expectations for the creation of 650,000 to the employment heap. A repeat of the previous month's big disappointment -- 266,000 jobs in April (revised up to 278,000 in the latest report, well-below market expectations for a ...

LIBOR phased out by year end

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2021
... banks in London. It is open to corruption and cartel behaviour due to the nature of relying on estimates submitted by the big banks in one city. The need to transition away from LIBOR became apparent in 2012 when significant collusion between big banks ...

Lessons from GPIF: Mizuno

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021
... government is a no to net zero," Mizuno said. "How could the public pension fund say 'we commit to net zero' while owning a big chunk of the Japanese government's sovereign bonds as well as Japanese corporates in our portfolio?" Instead, Mizuno told ...

Chief economist update: Australia on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021
... "A-number one, top of the list, head of the heap, king of the hill..." Ol' blue eyes was, of course, singing about the Big Apple (New York) but comparing apples with apples, Australia's on top. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) 'National ...

BlackRock wins monumental mandate

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021
In what is reportedly one of the biggest transfers of retirement savings to date, BlackRock has won the first external investment mandate for two of the largest defined benefit schemes in the UK. BlackRock will be the outsourced chief investment officer ...

How noise impacts trading performance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2021
... were like pre-COVID, from November 2019 to February 2020, we knew COVID was out there, but the markets didn't think it was a big deal, and volatility was low," Doran said. "The financial markets during the first two months of 2020 were still in a low ...

Westpac senior leader departs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
... Watts had been appointed. The loss of a senior leader in Westpac's consumer business comes amid some turbulence for the big bank after it received a record fine from AUSTRAC last year for failing to comply with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism ...

Class action consultation opens

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
... time, Class Actions Australia said the regulations could prevent compensation payouts to Australians that were cheated by big banks.

Investors move to thematic funds

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
... the BetaShares Global Cybersecurity ETF with $488 million in funds under management. "Thematic funds have been one of the big winners to emerge from the global pandemic, with many posting eye-catching returns over the period," Morningstar's director ...

Family law super reforms released

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
The government has released the long-awaited exposure draft legislation intended to prevent individuals from hiding superannuation assets in family law proceedings. The exposure draft legislation will use information held by the Australian Taxation ...