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Australians bullish on 2021 recovery

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021
... who expect economic growth to continue over the next 12 months. About two thirds (63%) of Australians surveyed during December 2020 expect to achieve better-than-average returns over the next year (up from 46% on Q3 2020), while 57% expect to outperform ...

AustralianSuper adds to investment committee

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021
... AustralianSuper's board, taking over from ACTU secretary Dave Oliver. Willox has been on AustralianSuper's board since December 2014. He is an employer director appointed by Ai Group, where he is the chief executive. Willox has worked as chief political ...

Sydney boutique to buy a slice of Investec assets

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
... portfolio is sound and provides a great opportunity to expand our relationship with Australian corporate borrowers." In December, Investec said it would withdraw from the Australian market after 23 years to focus on core markets of the UK and South Africa. ...

New fund launches on Chi-X

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
... for Australian investors." 360 Capital has a total FUM of $544 million, which was up 22.6% over the six months to 31 December 2020. Chi-X chief executive Vic Jokovic said active exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have experienced unprecedented demand over ...

Chief economist update: Powell said, Yellen said

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
... to rise. This is underscored by the Fed's upgrade to its 2021 GDP growth projection to 6.5% (from 4.2% forecast in December 2020) and an unemployment rate of 4.5% (from 5.0% predicted three months before). The Fed predicts a temporary acceleration ...

Harvey Kalman to leave Equity Trustees

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2021
... Trustees managing director Mick O'Brien. Equity Trustees reported $48.3 million revenue for the six months ending December 2020, largely in line with the revenue for the same period the previous year. Net profit was $9.8 million, down 14.5% over ...

FSC defends retail super funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2021
... Industry Super Australia that retail super funds rort members out of billions of dollars. ISA made the statement back in December last year when responding to the Morrison government's announcement of the Your Future, Your Super reforms package. ISA ...

Super funds to answer to new APRA enforcer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2021
... take up her new role on 1 July 2021 for a five-year term, replacing Geoff Summerhayes whose five-year term expired on 31 December 2020.

Chief economist update: The do-nothing Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
... participants - board members and presidents - revised up their GDP growth projections to 6.5% this year (from 4.2% projected in December 2020); 3.3% in 2022 (from 3.2%); before tapering to 2.2% in 2023 (from 2.4%) - still above the US Congressional Budget ...

Alphinity portfolio manager resigns

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 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 ...