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Chief economist update: Stop right now, thank you very much

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
... increased, according to the ABS: "Total hours worked increased by over 64 million hours between May and June, which was around a third (35%) of the 186 million decrease between March and May." Even the underemployment rate has improved big-time - down ...

Top equities managers revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... Long Short fund returned 29.3% for the year. Hyperion Australian Growth and Collins St Value Fund took out the second and third spots respectively, returning 19% and 13% over the 12 months ending June. Mercer head of portfolio management in the Pacific ...

Optimism, resilience high on the recruitment checklist

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
Workers looking for new employment in the superannuation and investment industries need to display qualities of optimism, self-motivation, resilience and mental agility to nab a role during the COVID-19 crisis. That's according to specialist recruiter ...

AMP advisers low priority for ASIC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
... it's a disincentive to get into the business," O'Neil said. "One AMP financial planner's business was devalued by over a third due to BOLR changes.... Another told me 'I'll be walking away after five years with nothing but it is better than other planners ...

Chief economist update: Flattening the rebound

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
... employment (-11 from -31). Australian business confidence brighten much brighter, rising by 21 points to +1 index points - the third consecutive month of improvement after dropping to a record low reading of -66 points in March. Then again, as Alan Oster ...

J.P. Morgan launches ESG integration policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
... spokesperson said, pointing to "factors like lack of standardisation, lack of transparency in ESG reporting, limitations of third-party ESG data providers" as limitations to overall ESG integration. To obtain ESG-integrated status, investment strategies ...

Super fund satisfaction mixed, SMSFs unhappy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
... Tasplan, HESTA and Sunsuper. UniSuper came in second in the Investment Trends survey, pipped at the post by ESSSuper. In third place was Catholic Super followed by Cbus. For the retail sector, Roy Morgan's survey saw Colonial First State come out on ...

Chief economist update: Good as gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
... recent statistics highlighting the recovery in business activity: industrial production grew by 4.4% in the year to May - the third straight month of improvement after a 13.5% fall in February; the contraction in retail sales has slowed to -2.8% from ...

US surpasses Asia Pacific for HNWI growth

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... between US$1 million and US$5 million in investable assets. While the ultra-HNWIs are a tiny population, they account for a third of the total wealth of all HNWIs. However, even the exceptionally wealthy did not manage to avoid the impacts of the COVID-19 ...

First State to dump $40m of thermal coal holdings

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... Damian Graham noted the fund had already made significant investments in a sustainable future. "Last year we took a one-third stake in the $1.1 billion South Australian wind farm, Snowtown 2; and have recently completed investments in a world-leading ...