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Chief economist update: OECD sees stronger growth ahead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
... Global GDP growth is now projected to be 5.6% this year, an upward revision of more than 1 percentage point from the December OECD Economic Outlook. World output is expected to reach pre-pandemic levels by mid-2021 but much will depend on the race between ...

Perpetual promotes on Aussie equities team

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2021
... investors. The wholesale version of the long-short fund has been running since 2003 and had $760 million in total assets at December end. The smaller companies fund's wholesale version had $631 million in assets and has been running since 1996. The ...

Chief economist update: Getting hot, hot, hot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... oil prices). The again, the current rig count remains significantly below the most recent peak of 887 rigs recorded in December 2018 and shouldn't significantly affect supply in the near term.

Fidante strikes new partnership

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2021
... Fidante Partners ended 2020 with an average FUM of $71.8 billion, after picking about $5.8 billion in net inflows in the December half. Of the inflows $3.9 billion were institutional and $1.9 billion were retail. About half of this FUM is from fixed ...

Australian recovery has been outstanding: La Trobe Financial

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021
... increasingly obvious that virtually every data print was coming in well ahead of expectations," he said. "Even yesterday's December quarter GDP coming in a 3.1%, ahead of consensus of 2.5%. So, there was a lot of skepticism about [the recovery] right ...

Chief economist update: The great Australian rebound

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021
... The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) National Accounts show the Australian economy expanded by 3.1% in the December 2020 quarter, a bit slower than the upwardly revised 3.4% quarterly rate in the three months to September 2020 but all the same ...

Super assets hit record high

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2021
... the investments of superannuation funds copped a beating when the pandemic hit around this time last year, APRA's December 2020 statistics shows that the asset pool rebounded 7.7%. On a year-on-year basis, the asset pool rose 2.2%, buoyed by APRA-regulated ...

Best global equities funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2021
... Fidelity's funds topped Rainmaker rankings for risk-adjusted returns for global equities funds for the three years ending December 2020. The report, RMetrics, measures over 1100 products. The international equities rankings included both active and ...

Mercer joins net-zero club

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2021
... investment options within Mercer Super. This represents a combined $36.4 billion in assets under management as at 31 December 2020. To achieve the net-zero goal Mercer said it expects to reduce portfolio carbon emissions by 45% from 2020 baseline levels ...

Aware Super eyes another merger

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2021
... completed in the coming weeks, the funds said. This is just the latest in a long line of mergers for Aware Super. In December 2020 it finalised a merger with WA Super, having also completed its merger with VicSuper just six months previous.