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Fiscal policy spurs investor confidence: Citi

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
... significant market reaction in kind." Around 70% of delegates think the S&P will be more than 5% higher by the end of September 2021. Furthermore, 38% of respondents have their portfolios positioned for a democratic sweep and 32% of investors thought ...

Chief economist update: Lowe taking interest rates lower

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
... remains weak. The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that the country's unemployment rate increased to 6.9% in September from 6.8% in the previous month and the underemployment rate ticked up to 11.4% from 11.3% over the same period. Likewise ...

Keep spending and investing: Lowe

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... suffered the negative effects of this recession more so than those in large business. The central bank found that as at mid-September, the number of people on the payrolls of firms with at least 200 employees was down just 1% on the level of mid-March. ...

Grow Super founder sentenced in betting scandal

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... work at the fund during the time the bets were placed. Trevisiol was also sentenced to 18 months good behaviour on 16 September 2020. Two more Grow employees stepped aside in relation to the incident as an internal investigation into the matter was conducted. ...

Chief economist update: Money buys happiness

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
Happy consumer makes the economy grow stronger. The result of the latest Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment survey disproves the aged-old adage that "money doesn't buy happiness". Australian consumer sentiment surged by 11.9% to a reading ...

Vanguard launches new ESG offerings

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2020
... ethical products, demonstrated by consistent growth in our existing Ethically Conscious funds, which were launched in September 2018." The fund is benchmarked to the custom-built FTSE Australia 300 Choice Index and seeks to track the return of this index ...

Willis Towers Watson director departs for LIC

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... under the ticker code BAF) voted overwhelmingly in favour of the investment company joining the WAM stable in early September. WAM Alternative Assets (ASX: WMA) provides Australian retail shareholders access to alternative investment opportunities, comprising ...

Rest appoints three investment specialists

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... Australia and New Zealand at Alliance Bernstein. He was appointed to the Rest board investment committee effective 1 September 2020. Kapur is a professor of practice with the Monash Business School, a member of the School Executive Committee and concurrently ...

Financial advice more important than ever: HUB24

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... said financial advice is more important than ever as it posts record inflows and signs close to 30 new licensees in the September quarter. Staging a $260 million bounce back after it suffered from the impacts of COVID-19, funds under administration were ...

Aussies continue to drain super

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2020
Over the week to September 27, a further 36,000 applications were received by funds for the Early Release of Superannuation (ERS) scheme. Of the 36,000 applications 22,000 were first-timers and 14,000 were repeat applications. Initial applications total ...