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Melburnians back in the lockup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
... can't do it from home. It's a complete turnaround from just a few days and two months before when on the 25th of April Victorian deputy chief health officer, Annaliese van Diemen, proclaimed in her press conference: "We are in a very enviable ...

Hostplus bumps cash allocation up

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... progressed earlier this year. However, the fund has now successfully paid out more than $1.5 billion in ERS payments. In April, Hostplus updated its PDS to add: "The trustee may suspend or restrict applications, switches, redemptions and withdrawal requests ...

Chief economist update: Second waving, not drowning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... underscored by the Caixin China PMI surveys that show the composite index continuing to improve from 47.6% (contraction) in April to 54.5 in May and 55.7 in June (increasing rate of expansion) - as both its manufacturing and services sectors improved ...

WAM makes replacement bid for Keybridge

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... at an offer price of 6.9 cents per share. The new offer is higher than the previous offer of 6.5 cents per share, made in April 2020. WAM Active chair Geoff Wilson said the new offer price should be compelling to Keybridge investors given it has historically ...

REIT revises up portfolio value

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2020
... pricing has ticked up since earlier in the year. LGIASuper, which applied its downward valuation to its property option on April 21 sending the daily earning rate to -4.17, ended FY20 at 0.3. Similarly, AustralianSuper's property option was at $60.24 ...

Chief economist update: Victoria's secret

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2020
... coronavirus hotspots. The first wave has already sent Australia's unemployment rate surging from 5.2% in March to 6.4% in April to 7.1% in May - and according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), had it not been for the decline in the participation ...

Chief economist update: A tale of two quarters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
... re-opening of commerce in America, underscored by the improvement in the ISM manufacturing and non-manufacturing from their April lows and the fall in the unemployment from the record high of 14.7% in April to 11.1% in June. So far so good. But the rising ...

Super for women under scrutiny

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... fees are comparable to many industry super funds and that Verve was the sixth top performing fund for the year ending 30 April 2020. Hobbs and Lusher agree that more needs to be done to create parity in superannuation balances between men and women - ...

Chant West, Zenith agree on acquisition

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
... impacted since the two reached the agreement. In response, Chant West lodged legal proceedings against the Zenith subsidiary on April 6. It has since sold its Enzumo financial planning software business to ASX-listed dealer group Centrepoint Alliance ...

ClearView announces board changes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
... Geoff Black has been named as the new chair, replacing Bruce Edwards who announced his intention to retire at the start of April. Edwards officially retired as chair and non-executive director effective July 1. Black joined the ClearView board as an ...