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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 ...

ASIC to improve default insurance

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2020
... highlighted the fact that more than half of the workforce is employed in primarily administrative or office-based work (i.e. lower risk, white-collar work). "In those funds not targeted to high-risk occupations, it is plausible that many members may ...

Qualitas readies new fund with GURNER

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020
... Qualitas co-founder Mark Fischer said. "While rental demand is softer in the immediate term on the back of COVID-induced lower net migration, there are structural demand-side strengths that can't be ignored." "Young, well-educated professionals are persistently ...

TelstraSuper appoints head of equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020
... team," the fund said in a statement. TelstraSuper Corporate Plus (MySuper Growth) returned -1.8% in the year ending October, lower than the median funds' -1.1% for the period, according to Rainmaker workplace super tables. Over a 10-year period ...

RIR reveals bleak financial upside for disabled people

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020
... with $1016 for people with no reported disability. The more severe the disability, the more likely the person is to have a lower income. People with disability in retirement have lower average wealth, and lower home ownership rates, compared with the ...

Elanor healthcare fund continues expansion

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020
... advances in health technology, is driving the delivery of healthcare services to out-of-public hospital facilities such as lower-cost day surgeries and medical centres," he said. The property increases the portfolio's WALE and diversifies the portfolio's ...

Aussies lost money due to lack of advice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
... making the hit to Australian portfolios curious. The research found those in the sample hardest hit by COVID-19 were those on lower incomes, described as earning less than $1800 a week. In this group, 19% said the pandemic has had a major negative impact ...

Trading platform partners with Sharesight

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020
... dividend payments and generate tax reports. The platform targets active share traders with two offerings: FocusLite, for lower-volume traders that pay minimum brokerage fees of $10 per trade or 0.04% and Focus, which is for active traders that pay a ...

Finance sector has largest pay gap

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2020
... eliminate the gender pay gap due to having "deep pockets". The union said it has seen COVID-19 used as an excuse for offering lower salaries. It has also seen the gender pay gap become less of a priority for businesses - with 6% fewer companies saying ...

Aware Super cuts carbon emissions by 40%

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
... creating the benchmarks, Aware's passive and systematic investment managers can implement their strategies in line with lower carbon emissions. The benchmarks were rolled out to Aware Super's investment managers in October 2020. Since then, the fund's ...