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Aussie analysts share COVID-19 investment tips

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
With global markets rocking one way and the other in the last two months, it's not too far a stretch to imagine investors are feeling a little seasick, or at the least dumbfounded. Despite a recession knocking on the world's door, investors ...

COVID-19 drives Aussies to check exemptions

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
In one of the most tragic of COVID-19 consequences, the pandemic is driving Australians to ask their life insurers whether their policies cover them for suicide, the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economic has heard. Appearing before ...

Super CIOs defend illiquid assets

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... understanding risk. "Risk management in particular is the one thing that you have to know really well to make sure you survive short term events like COVID-19 - and I will call it a short term event in a context of 30 to 50 year investment strategies," ...

Local financial sector to lose $3.5bn plus

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... big mostly because these industries are big," he said. "Mining is still open, but its incomes are set to fall $5 billion short in the next few months. It is struggling to get some of its workers onsite, as they'd ordinarily fly into remote locations ...

Platinum funds downgraded at Morningstar

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
Two funds from Platinum Asset Management were downgraded to bronze at Morningstar yesterday. The funds downgraded are the $8.5 billion Platinum International Fund and its P class, and the $39 million Platinum Global Fund. The biggest, the Platinum International ...

ESG investing now mainstream: deVere

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... turbulent times," Green said. Record-low oil prices, which he argued, are not likely to rebound to pre-crisis levels in the short-term, have also helped to drive interest in ESG investments. "This is because ESG funds circumnavigate oil stocks, so their ...

Australian fund regulation below average: Morningstar

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... around mutual fund operations and distribution, Morningstar said they consistently lagged behind other markets. "They fall short of the standard set by other markets that govern conflicts of interest and incentivise investing," it said. "In addition ...

ESG performing positively: MSCI

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... ESG-rated stocks, similar to what we observed over the past five years," MSCI said. "The COVID-19 outbreak - while over a very short term and limited in scope - is the first real-world test since the 2008 global financial crisis of the resilience of ...

COVID-19 ETP market winners, losers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... Rainmaker analysis indicates these products were not only being used in March to hedge portfolios, but to trade volatility for short term gain. Vanguard Australian Shares Index, SPDR 200 and BetaShares Australia 200 ETF had the largest net flows for ...

A case for flexible asset allocation: First Sentier

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
Investment managers with fixed multi-asset allocations may have been better served by a flexible approach during the COVID-19 crisis. That's according to First Sentier Investors, who argue a flexible, dynamic multi-asset approach to investing can ...