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Industry fund called out over board diversity initiatives

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
... members are women, but the other interesting thing about the demographics of our membership is that they invariably are of a lower income, they have less job security and there's a high proportion in rural and regional areas. "They're the areas ...

Real estate proves resilience: CoreLogic

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
... to changes in economic conditions," she said. "However, this volatility also tends to see a rapid recovery in the wake of lower mortgage rates and an improvement in consumer sentiment. "Perhaps even more surprising is that some of the suburbs more impacted ...

Chief economist update: Fed acts with inaction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
... in 2020 (from -3.7% forecast in September), +4.2% in 2021 (from 4.0%), and 3.2% in 2022 (from 3.0%). The Fed now expects lower unemployment rates than it did three months ago - 6.7% (versus 7.6%) this year; 5.0% (from 5.5%) in 2021; and 4.2% (from 4.6%) ...

AIA to launch income protection product

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2020
... and will also allow time for the product to be refined according to adviser and industry feedback." IP CORE sits at the lower end of the cost spectrum, next to the basic Income Protection Accident Only/Super Income Protection Accident Only cover.

Super leaves gig economy behind

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2020
... in the gig economy, for example in meal delivery services, are more likely than the general population to be young, have lower level of affluence, be students or be formerly unemployed. Work in the gig economy is also associated with greater income variability ...

Industry fund sees 252% increase in digital advice use

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2020
... Given the structural changes to the advice market, there is a very real concern that advice will become inaccessible to lower- and middle-income Australians." Doyle added that with ASIC and the industry looking to see how more Australians can benefit ...

Magellan launches funds on Chi-X

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
... said the Core Series aims to leverage the company's investment philosophy and proprietary research to give investors a lower cost, and more diversified, portfolio of high-quality stocks. The sustainable fund aims to bring investors a high conviction ...

ASIC explores value for money in default group insurance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
... receiving low value for money in group insurance. On average, members aged under 30 appeared to have received significantly lower value than older members over the six-year period. This may be an intentional design feature of some group insurance, ASIC ...

Chief economist update: An extra mile for a deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
... and the EU. The British government's own modelling suggests that under such an accord, Britain's GDP will be 5% lower in 15 years than it would have been had the country stayed in the EU. With no deal, the cost rises to 8%. Other forecasts are ...

Amazon Web Services expands Australian operations

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2020
... the country. The AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region will join the existing Sydney region in supporting AWS customers with lower latency and better fault tolerance for critical cloud workloads. Current AWS customers include Deloitte, CBA, NAB, Atlassian ...