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First State Super, CEFC back new bond

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
BNP Paribas has issued a $140 million green bond linked to the newly launched Australian Climate Transition Index, subscribed by the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) and First State Super. The Australian Climate Transition Index (also known as ...

Housing values continue to slide

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
... even further when government support winds down, according to the latest research from CoreLogic. CoreLogic's home value index dropped 0.6% last month, only a slight improvement from June at 0.7%. Canberra and Adelaide were the only capital cities to ...

Gold rally continues to hit new highs

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... believes both silver and gold will continue to push all-time highs. "As real yields have collapsed, along with the US Dollar Index steadily weakening to a 22-month low, virus and geopolitical uncertainties have remained elevated, spurring momentum across ...

Financial comfort reliant on fiscal support: ME Bank

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... JobKeeper, JobSeeker and the Early Release of Super scheme. Almost all 11 measures that make up the Household Financial Comfort Index improved, notably the ability to cope with a financial emergency increased 9% to a record 5.25 and cash savings up 8% ...

Momentum, quality outperform in 2020: S&P

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
... Jones Indices APAC global research and design director Liyu Zeng said. However, the outperformance of the low volatility index was not as pronounced as previous market sell-offs. "According to the factor attribution, both the style factor exposures and ...

Garry Laurence to depart Perpetual

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... boutique. Under Laurence, Perpetual Global Share Fund (Class A) returned 9.77% p.a. since the 2014 appointment compared to index's 11.85%. Under Barrow Hanley's Cory Martin, its Global Equity Trust returned 7.33% pa. since the May 2016 appointment compared ...

Sydney boutique winds up fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... to a sustainable level. The Redpoint Industrials Fund aimed to perform in line with S&P/ASX 100 Industrials Accumulation Index post fees on five year rolling periods, while holding less than half of the companies in the benchmark. As at June end, it ...

State Street to launch ESG ETF

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
... risk-return to the ASX 200. The SPDR S&P/ASX 200 ESG Fund will go by the ticker E200 and is the first ETF to track the ASX 200 ESG Index, a broad-based, market-cap-weighted index designed to measure the performance of securities meeting sustainability ...

Chief economist update: Second wave comes to Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
... economic activity has picked up. This is underscored by the improvement in the au Jibun Bank Japan PMI surveys. The composite index moved closer to the expansion mark, rising to a reading of 43.9 in July from 40.8 in June and 27.8 in May and the all-time ...

MSCI shifts to the cloud with Microsoft alliance

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
Global index provider MSCI has formed a strategic alliance with Microsoft to shift its products, data and services onto the cloud, in a move that the duo says will accelerate innovation among the global investment industry. The partnership will enhance ...