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Perks names investment chair

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... helping open doors to a wider range of investment opportunities, whether that be in private equity, co-investing or even start-up funding," Hall said. Perks Private Wealth director Simon Hele said that the appointment the firm's commitment to building ...

Chief economist update: Bubble, bubble getting out of trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2021
... life after the COVID-19 pandemic. Both economies stand to gain. Not only would the re-opening of borders sans quarantine re-start postponed reunions and visits t families and friends on both sides of the pond, it would, as the Reserve Bank of New Zealand ...

ETFs crack $100bn

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2021
Nearly 20 years after ETFs started trading in Australia, their total assets crossed $102 billion at the end of March. There are now 220 ETFs listed on the ASX. In March, their investors made roughly 18,685 ETF trades a day with average daily trading ...

UniSuper tops MySuper league tables

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2021
UniSuper topped MySuper tables for the three years to February end, as default options hit their one-year high since COVID-19 started. UniSuper Balanced returned 8.3% p.a. over the three-year period, making it the best performing MySuper option. It ...

Chief economist update: ScoMo cannot miss new vaccination target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
... market. According to the ABS, "job vacancies were 27 per cent higher than 12 months earlier in February 2020, just before the start of the pandemic". "The seasonally adjusted estimates for the February 2021 quarter are as follows: Total job vacancies ...

Vanguard appoints super administrator

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021
Vanguard has appointed an administrator for its soon-to-be-launched superannuation business in Australia. GROW Inc (formerly Grow Super) was appointed Vanguard's administrator for its superannuation offering last month, taking the contract from ...

Cairns women disadvantaged by super gender gap

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021
Industry Super Australia's modelling found that women from Cairns will retire with almost $40,000 less superannuation than men. These stark figures highlight the need to lift the super rate as legislated from 9.5% to 12%, ISA said. "Women on middle ...

BlackRock hires from AMP Capital

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021
... sophisticated command of sustainable strategies signals the high priority we place on this effort. This is a great pairing as we start to roll out our sustainable investing team in the region." BlackRock global head of sustainable investing Philipp Hildebrand ...

ATO quizzed on readiness for stapling

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2021
The Australian Taxation Office yesterday couldn't answer exactly how many stapling-triggered employer checks it expects, but maintained its readiness for a July 1 go-live. Appearing before the Senate Economics Legislation Committee yesterday, ATO ...

State Street tech to back crypto trading platform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2021
The asset manager is partnering with a start-up to build a new platform for institutional investors to trade digital currencies. State Street's Currenex business is working with Puremarkets and will provide the trading infrastructure for its Pure ...