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Is it time to lean on the Future Fund?

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... country's total debt but experts say it is not reason enough to draw down on the sovereign wealth fund. The government has so far announced $213 billion in stimulus spending, across its first $17.6 billion package from March 12, the $66 billion after ...

Fixed income liquidity squeeze bites

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... companies and trusts (LICs and LITs) have long traded at discounts to their net tangible assets. Fixed income markets in March had far more sellers than buyers, and bid/ask spreads widened significantly, even for heavily traded and safe securities. Australian ...

Return of the king

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... market over. "Having said all that, of course, it's still very difficult for clients to look at their balance and see how far it has declined," Vynokur said. "From our perspective it is critical to keep the focus on the big picture, and focus on ...

Atlas Advisors adds to leadership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
Atlas Advisors Australia has hired two former Macquarie Group executives. Arthur Porter has joined Atlas as executive director of real estate and Craig Swanger as head of advisory board financial products. Porter spent 14 years at Macquarie Group where ...

Warakirri appoints exclusive manager for equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... Australian and global equities offerings. Their relationship goes back 15 years, when Warakirri first mandated Northcape. So far, Northcape has been one of managers under the old multi-manager structure. For example, in Australian equities it will now ...

Chief economist update: AUD depreciation no cure for coronavirus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... US$0.62 at the onset of the GFC in 2007- when most major economies went into a Great Recession. The coronavirus crisis has so far taken the A$/US$ exchange rate to as low as US$0.5821 from this year's high of US$0.7029. Central banks' race to ...

ASX suffers worst quarter in over a century

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2020
... according to the S&P Dow Jones Indices quarterly report. "While there have been relatively few confirmed cases of COVID-19 so far on either side of the Tasman sea, markets in Australia and New Zealand were swept up in a global sell-off as businesses ...

Super funds' dirty, poor performing stocks revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2020
... Energy, Washington H Soul Pattinson, Mineral Resources, Whitehaven Coal, New Hope, Cooper Energy, Karoon, Canarvon, Senex, FAR and New Century Resources are the stocks in question. These companies, Market Forces says, are expanding the scale of the fossil ...

Chief economist update: Great Scott! Mighty Mo to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2020
... keep us, Australians all, in our jobs. According to the AFR, "this equates to "6.65 per cent of GDP. Total fiscal stimulus so far is $214 billion, or more than 11 per cent of GDP... Combined with the $105 billion from the Reserve Bank and other fiscal ...

Extraordinary stimulus provides wage subsidy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2020
... a week to draft and the opposition will have to be briefed. "We must work together to make this work and to make it go as far as possible. We still do not know the many challenges we will face in the months ahead. Our goal is to protect the lives and ...