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S&P 500 rebounds from COVID-losses

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020
... phase-one US-China trade deal is in limbo. These are two potential catalysts for equity market volatility." Consumer discretionary (+1.46), communication services (+1.09%) and information technology (+0.39) lead the gains amongst the different sectors. ...

40% of ERS applicants not eligible: illion

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
... money was used to increase spending and not maintain it. "Almost two-thirds (64%) of this additional spending was on discretionary items such as clothing, furniture, restaurants and alcohol," illion said. "Spending on debt repayments has dropped slightly ...

GPT bleeds $520 million

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2020
... Hill Town Centre and the Melbourne Central office and retail development. Non-essential capital expenditure and discretionary spending has also been reduced, GPT said. The group also completed three logistics developments during the period, with a combined ...

CBA ups remediation bill for advice

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... Count Financial. CountPlus holds an 85% stake in Count Financial and together with a special purpose subsidiary of a discretionary trust; CountPlus acquired the firm from CBA on 1 October 2019. "In connection with the acquisition, CBA provided an indemnity ...

Momentum, quality outperform in 2020: S&P

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
... the Dividend Opportunities Index, however, its overweight exposures to metals and mining, utilities and consumer discretionary, and its underweight exposures to consumer staples and REITs, contributed positively to returns. Overall, momentum and quality ...

Top equities managers revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... consumer staples, while energy, financials and real estate underperformed. Over the past three months, IT, consumer discretionary and energy sectors outperformed the benchmark. "Market trends and stock leadership seen in the first three quarters of the ...

Growth outplays value: Frontier

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... stock selection had a marked impact on performance for managers with exposure to technology, energy and consumer discretionary sectors each delivering double digit performance. In a flip of the previous quarter, healthcare, consumer staples and utilities ...

Australian Ethical posts record results

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
... Australian Ethical saw $241 million in net inflows, while in the June quarter it raked in $119 million, as both discretionary investors and consumers shifted towards more ethical investments. Australian Ethical now has over 57,000 super fund members ...

Generation gap opens up in financial advice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
... half of respondents' financial positions had declined in the pandemic, and 68% had reduced both their overall and discretionary spend. But, consumers still expressed optimism with more than two-thirds either confident or neutral to the prospects of a ...

At least $70bn more in stimulus needed: Grattan

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... billion, $5 billion). On top of the temporary and longer-term solutions, Grattan says $20 billion to $40 billion of discretionary fiscal stimulus will be required over the next two financial years to reduce unemployment by 1.5ppts and returning Australia ...