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Zero rates causing risky business: Pengana

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
... huge in the US and are chains of small, cheap supermarkets or variety stores that provide smaller packages to people on lower incomes," Fisher said. "It is essentially the opposite of Costco as customers can buy smaller portions of items."

PYSP reunites $4.3bn of lost super

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2021
... data from the ATO shows unclaimed superannuation dropped to $13.8 billion in the year ending June 2020, which is $7 billion lower than previous year. By state, New South Wales has the highest unclaimed superannuation (over $3 billion), followed by Victoria ...

Chief economist update: When 6%-plus growth is deemed too low

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2021
... international institutions and financial markets. This time is different. For this time, the Middle Kingdom's growth goal is lower than consensus expectations for an 8.0% expansion in 2021. Just recently, the OECD's March 2021 'Interim Economic ...

Life Company of the Year named

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
... performance across the industry overall also dropped. It was a challenging year for BDM teams in 2020 as reflected in slightly lower scores compared to 12 months ago," Sheils said. "That said, the top performing insurers went above and beyond, delivering ...

Chief economist update: The do-nothing Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
... Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) estimate of America's potential growth rate of 2.0%. The unemployment rate would be lower. It's now seen at 4.5% this year (from 5.0% projected in December 2020); 3.9% in 2022 (from 4.2%); and, 3.5% in ...

AustralianSuper introduces insurance changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2021
... insurer TAL are making several changes to insurance premiums that will amend work-cover ratings and see some members pay lower premiums. Following its annual insurance review, Australia's largest superannuation fund, which reached $203 billion in ...

Chief economist update: ECB gives PEPP talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2021
It's not what the European Central Bank (ECB) did at its March governing council meeting - keeping monetary policy settings unchanged - but its PEPP (pandemic emergency purchase programme) talk that sent the Euro Stoxx-50 index on the up and up. ...

Investor population rises for global equities

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
... 2020 and the desire to learn a new skill while in lockdown. In addition, investors are fuelled by the greater choice of lower-cost investment platforms. However, they are wanting more educational resources from their main platform to inform their investment ...

ERS disproportionately impacted women

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
... program the gender gap in super balance increased. Women between the ages of 30 and 39 had balances an average of 15.6% lower than men's balances before the ERS and 22.3% lower after the ERS. For those aged 40 to 49 the gap increased from 26.3% to 32.3% ...

No more easy 6% returns: Fidelity

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
Despite the fairly sunny economic outlook, lower investment returns are a reality that institutional investors will have to grapple with, according to Fidelity International. Fidelity International cross asset investment specialist Anthony Doyle said ...