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Fund supports deidentified recruitment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
... the way we hire, recruitment is generally consciously bias, we're deidentifying the system, we're focusing on candidate versus CV," Hunter told Financial Standard. "Since adopting this, in under two years, we've transformed the way we hire. We are on ...

Chief economist update: Government spending made money, saved money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020
... calculation shows that the adjustments show that the Australian economy would be stronger overall over the next two years - 4.25% versus 3.25%. "The unemployment rate, forecast in the 2020-21 Budget to peak at 8% in the December quarter, is now forecast ...

Chief economist update: Fed acts with inaction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
... 4.0%), and 3.2% in 2022 (from 3.0%). The Fed now expects lower unemployment rates than it did three months ago - 6.7% (versus 7.6%) this year; 5.0% (from 5.5%) in 2021; and 4.2% (from 4.6%) in 2022 - and while unchanged at 1.2% this year, the Fed expects ...

Chief economist update: David Australia versus Goliath China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept monetary policy unchanged at its December board meeting - the last of 2020 - and for good reason. "In Australia, the economic recovery is under way and recent data have generally been better than expected... ...

Pan-Asian equities to perform well: Longlead

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
... conventional valuation metrics such as price to earnings ratios, market indices such as the S&P500 in the US look very expensive versus history as current earnings are at their cyclical lows." Within Pan-Asia markets, Campbell said key sectors poised ...

COVID-19 spurs proactive investing: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
... security. Compared to global investors, Australians are more worried about their future financially due to COVID-19 (72% versus the 65% global average). During this volatile period, over a third of Aussies tend to invest or make adjustments to their ...

RBA, CBA, NAB partner for wholesale currency

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2020
... syndicated loan on an Ethereum-based DLT platform for wholesale participants and the implications of 'atomic' delivery-versus-payment settlement on a DLT platform. CBA's group executive for institutional banking and markets Andrew Hinchliff ...

Frontier Advisors eyes international clients

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2020
... implementing, Polson says. In superannuation, Frontier is working on a retirement income solution, again as an adviser versus a product manufacturer. And it has been investing in a technology platform that now accounts for 12% of its revenue, according ...

Risk but no reward in institutional equities portfolios

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... startling discovery to us was the fact that, on average, portfolios had nearly two times the amount of uncompensated risk versus compensated risk," Northern Trust Asset Management head of quantitative strategies Michael Hunstad said. "For investors ...

Through good and bad: Advisers add value

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... someone with an investment balance of $250,000, selling to cash on March 16 would have locked in losses of more than $50,000 versus a member with the same balance who stayed invested during the volatility, recovering almost $20,000 already by the end ...