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Sequoia acquires advice firm

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
Sequoia Financial Group has entered into a purchase of assets agreement with financial advice firm Total Cover Australia, through the company's subsidiary InterPrac Securities. It is the fourth acquisition of a retiring InterPrac adviser's portfolio ...

Chief economist update: Second waving, not drowning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
While we, Australians all, remain glued tracking the mounting cases of infection in Victoria - one that has prompted the New South Wales government to close its borders with its neighbour south of the Murray River for the first time since the Spanish ...

Top traded stocks revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
The top traded stocks for June among Australian investors has been revealed, with punters throwing cash at tech, aviation, automotive and entertainment companies to profit from the rally. Multi-asset platform eToro found that Tesla was its most traded ...

MSC Trustees wins mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
MSC Trustees was appointed trustee for the $1 billion ASX-listed notes of Spark Infrastructure. The notes form part of Spark's stapled security capital structure, first listed in 2005. In taking on the mandate, MSC Trustees replaces Australian Executor ...

SG Hiscock, Morgan Stanley launch global equity funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
Boutique fund manager SG Hiscock has partnered with Morgan Stanley to exclusively distribute their global equity funds in Australia. The SGH Partnership Program has been launched with the Morgan Stanley Global Quality fund (hedged and unhedged) and ...

Chief economist update: The post-pandemic problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
"This is a once-in-a-100 year type event, we haven't seen this sort of thing in Australia since the end of the first World War..." This was how Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison described the coronavirus outbreak shortly after the World Health ...

Challenges abound as super poises for COVID-19 recovery

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2020
Leaders from the nation's industry super funds have called for greater certainty around superannuation policy, noting various challenges face the industry in the period of economic recovery ahead. In particular, industry fund chief executives pushed ...

Chief economist update: This rebound is brought to you by the letter V

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
The gradual easing of restrictions has unfrozen social and business activity in almost every nation that decided to do so. Central banks and governments can flood the system with all the money they have, or can print, but with consumers not allowed ...

Dividend yield set to dial down to zero

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020
Contrarian fund manager Allan Gray predicts dividend headwinds are on the horizon, arguing investors shouldn't expect any yield from the majority of ASX-listed companies in the near future. Allan Gray chief investment officer Simon Mawhinney said he ...

Rest climate change trial delayed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020
Rest member Mark McVeigh's day in court with his $57 billion industry superannuation fund over its management of climate change risk has been delayed. New orders were made in the Federal Court yesterday, with the trial date pushed back from July ...