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Vision Super revises investment strategy

ELIZA BAVIN | TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2020

... interest rates. For accumulation and NCAP members, Vision's conservative and balanced options will have a new objective of CPI + 1.5% down from CPI + 2.5%. For pension members in a conservative option, the objective has been changed to CPI + 2%, down ...

Challenger launches new lifetime annuity

KANIKA SOOD | MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020

... to the cash rate, according to the firm. Challenger also offers lifetime annuities that have no index, are indexed to the CPI or partially indexed to it. "The innovative new RBA Cash Linked option allows customers to receive higher annuity payments as ...

ISA, Grattan find common ground

ELIZA BAVIN | TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2020

... single, entitling them to a higher rate of pension than each member of a couple, and deflates the future value of the pension to CPI - vastly inflating its value relative to community living standards," ISA said. "It claims all workers continuously receiving ...

Chief economist update: Cheaper prices not a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020

... (-16.2 per cent), with free pre-school being provided in NSW, Victoria and Queensland... Excluding these three components, the CPI would have risen 0.1 per cent in the June quarter." Similarly, while the annual headline CPI measure has fallen into deflation ...

Chief economist update: The post-pandemic problem

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020

... especially important because it determines the real rates of return on investments and for household spending. Then again, latest CPI data show that despite the trillions of dollars or euros or yens or pounds, or whatever currency, that are currently ...

Rice Warner questions super return targets

HARRISON WORLEY | THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2020

... "While the past can be a poor guide to the future, it has to be said that those funds with a 25 or 30 year history of earning CPI + 4% or even 5% must be doing something right, persistently," Rice Warner said. "The only other comparable metric is the ...

Chief economist update: Japan on the mend but BOJ, Abe not taking any chances

BENJAMIN ONG | WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020

... 50). This would keep the Bank of Japan (BOJ) from achieving its 2% inflation target. Latest stats show that Japanese headline CPI inflation remained barely above zero (0.1%) in the year to May while core inflation lingered in deflation (-0.2%) over the ...

The secret to neutralising sequencing risk

ALLY SELBY | TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020

... weak economies, the inevitable result was the increased risk taking needed in portfolios to meet expected rates of return or CPI + thresholds - because the risk-free rate gave so little nominal reward." Investors had become complacent during a decade ...

Charter Hall invests in logistics

ELIZA BAVIN | WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020

Charter Hall announced the acquisition of a $115 million logistics property as part of two of its industrial property funds. The company secured the property for its Charter Hall Prime Industrial Fund (CPIF) and Charter Hall Direct Industrial Fund No.4 ...

Charter Hall extends JV, makes acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN | THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2020

Charter Hall Group has announced an extension to its relationship with global institutional investor Allianz Real Estate to acquire a $648 million portfolio. The ALDI logistics assets portfolio includes the ALDI distribution centres, which were designed ...

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Australian Unity to shed 195 roles

MATTHEW WAI

Australian Unity is reducing its workforce by 195 positions due to underperformance stemming from delays in government support for its Home Health platform and the integration of several businesses.

Count shutters limited-advice business, slips in size ranking

MATTHEW WAI

Count Financial has reportedly wound up its restricted SMSF/limited-advice service, losing some 26 advisers on the Financial Adviser Register, latest data shows.

First Super recruits head of investments from Prime Super

MATTHEW WAI

First Super has appointed a new head of investments, replacing Chris Artis, who was in the position for the past three months on an interim basis.

BMO eyes Euroz Hartleys' capital markets business

KARREN VERGARA

Euroz Hartleys confirmed it is in discussions with Canada's BMO Financial Group for a potential sale of its capital markets business for $145 million.

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