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COVID-19 recovery plans must heed climate science

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2020
... action on carbon emissions as a part of its COVID-19 recovery plan. It also wants the government to support businesses to reach net zero emissions target before 2050. "There is a risk that the momentum that has been building around the climate change ...

State Street fund purges tobacco, weapons

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
... 0.25% p.a." "We expect out-performance or underperformance of the MSCI World ex Australia Index for the unhedged fFund to reach or exceed 0.50% in some 12 month periods.

Australia facing largest ever GDP fall

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... Australia, Tasmania, the Northern Territory and the ACT," Frydenberg said. "Treasury is forecasting the unemployment rate to reach around 10%, or 1.4 million unemployed, in the June quarter." The five percentage point increase in the unemployment rate ...

APRA releases fund-level ERS data

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... fulfil. ING Superannuation Fund received 4575 requests. Of those, 3677 were paid but 46.5% took longer than six days to reach the respective member. Of the 1075 requests from Australian Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund members, 390 were paid ...

Volatility continues to drive investors

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
Investors continue to be driven by the market volatility caused by COVID-19, with the ASX recording ever-increasing trading volumes. Average daily trades on the Australian Securities Exchange continue to rise, as investors deal with the ongoing fallout ...

Emerging markets weather varied COVID-19 storms

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... large current account deficits and foreign-denominated debt may continue to be at risk of capital flight, especially as they reach the limits of monetary and fiscal policy aimed at supporting their economies during this unprecedented demand shock," they ...

ME Bank saga could impact super funds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
ME Bank has come under fire after customers received letters telling them the redraw balances on their mortgages had been dramatically slashed without any warning. One letter from ME Bank, seen by Financial Standard, showed a customer's redraw balance ...

Aussie banks battered by pandemic

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020
... revolve around the extent of support that banks provide for Australian business and mortgage holders. "Credit costs are yet to reach the levels experienced in the financial crisis of 2008 and nobody knows what it will look like in the coming months," ...

Investment approaches in change phase

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
The COVID-19 crisis may be the push superannuation funds needed as investment processes make the switch from strategic asset allocation (SAA) to a total portfolio approach (TPA). At the end of 2019, before the effects of the pandemic reached Australian ...

Aussie equities winners, losers revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
Aussie passive and active equity strategies have been put to the test, with Morningstar assessing how the country's small and large-cap managers have fared during the highs of 2019 and the lows of 2020. The coronavirus crash has renewed debate on ...