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APRA resumes life insurance intervention

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
APRA will resume its intervention into the life insurance market to stem ongoing heavy losses in individual disability income insurance. APRA announced its intervention in December last year, highlighting flaws in individual disability income insurance ...

Chief economist update: Dan defeats second wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2020
... alcohol consumption on August 2 when Stage 4 restrictions were put in place - and closed state borders. These aren't heavy prices to pay for the prospect of a healthier economy. For sure and for certain, there are, and there will be casualties. Some ...

Aware Super joins forces with Dutch pension fund

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020
... to expand across other major European cities over the coming years, and will see it operate as a fully integrated asset heavy owner-operator. City ID chief executive Alexander Goad said the company was delighted to partner with APG and Aware Super to ...

Banks lose US$635 billion

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
... China (-27.65), China Construction Bank (-18.95) and the Agricultural Bank of China (-23.31%). Japanese banks also made a heavy presence with the Japan Post Bank (-19.18%), Mizuho Financial Group (-11.33%) and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (-20.59%). ...

The fundies of tomorrow

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
The next wave of fund managers is ready to leave their textbooks behind and start investing with real money. And star stockpickers of today are offering their help to an interuniversity group. Traditionally, students undertaking a commerce or business ...

Credit Suisse names preferred investment options

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
Platforms are the preferred sector exposure, asset managers are inexpensive and Link Group offers the best mid-term value, according to Credit Suisse's Diversified Financial Services Sector review for August 2020. The report reviewed the key operational ...

New sales lead at ethical manager

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
... last year after identifying what it saw as a gap in the market. The SMAs screen out investments in oil, tobacco, weapons, heavy polluters, gambling and coal while targeting healthcare, recycling, education, sustainable technologies, clean energy and ...

REITs better value than bonds, equities: LaSalle

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020
... their peers. "The latter two economies are tied to natural resources and the real estate indices in both countries have heavy weightings to retail, both of which have contributed to the sharp correction," LaSalle said. Much of the market movements seen ...

New 'cash plus' style sovereign bond fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2020
... volatility, with co-portfolio manager Charlie Jamieson saying the strategy did not suffer in the March drawdowns faced by credit-heavy 'cash plus' funds. The fund was incepted in December 2019 but is now starting to attract adviser money totaling $24 ...

Chief economist update: Ardern's ardour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2020
... hasn't experience a second wave like Australia. Still, as Bloomberg notes: "While a government wage subsidy has prevented heavy job losses, protecting incomes and underpinning spending. That may change when the subsidy ends next month and New Zealand's ...