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Hyperion Asset Management builds out team

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2021
... multi-asset portfolios. Clarke previously spent eight years at the Reserve Bank of Australia as a senior analyst and an economist. Finally, Sam Parcell has taken on the role of research associate. He spent over two years as an investment analyst at Sandhurst ...

YFYS will impact advisers too

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2021
Sunsuper chief economist Brian Parker addressed the Association of Financial Advisers' annual conference to explain what the Your Future, Your Super reforms mean for financial advisers. "These reforms are really important for our members, your clients ...

Recovery set to slow: OECD

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2021
... reducing the capital gains tax discount. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said he has no plans to raise GST. BetaShares chief economist David Bassanese said the recommendations have a "snowball's chance in hell" of ever making it through Australia's political ...

Kiwi markets regulator names new chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2021
... sector that primarily exports financial services and represents around 25% of Gibraltar's economy. She is also a former economist at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and worked at the Financial Services Authority in London (now known as the Financial ...

Economic recap: Week to September 10

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2021
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is concerned but not alarmed at the growing cases of Delta variant infections that's wreaking havoc on the lives and livelihood in Australia's two biggest states - New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria (VIC). ...

Should super funds consider crypto assets?

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
Superannuation funds that dismiss crypto assets are at risk of underperforming, the AIST ASI Conference has heard. This is according to Genesis Block managing director Chloe White, who spoke at an Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees 2021 ...

Experts torn on inflation outlook

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021
... very slowly central banks will have to concede that they need to change their policies," Ward said. AXA group chief economist Gilles Moëc, meanwhile, took a different stance. He spoke in favour of inflation, pointing out that around the world inflation ...

Market momentum to continue: ASI Conference

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021
... of a portfolio in the short term. Taking a short-term perspective, AMP Capital head of investment strategy and chief economist Shane Oliver said the global recovery impinges on the COVID-19 vaccine and maintaining high vaccination rates. "It's going ...

Economic recap: Week to August 13

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2021
The Delta variant and its seeming immunity to lockdowns and extended lockdowns continue to dominate attention in Australia. Last week, the state of New South Wales (NSW) announced stricter and broader (into regions) of restrictions; the Australian Capital ...

Top economist Don Stammer to fund UNE scholarship

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2021
Before he was an investment banker and economist with an enviable career spanning more than half a century, Don Stammer was just a 'Vacy boy' trying to beat the odds. He pays it forward this year with a university scholarship program, held in ...