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Analysts remain wary as ASX breaks 7000

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... by a flooding of central bank liquidity. "The reason I think the ASX200 is outperforming right now is that unlike other major economies in the world, the market has increased its expectations of rate cuts from the RBA," he said. "This is pushing flow ...

Regulation costly, time consuming: CSIRO

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... also said Australian regulators are among the most collaborative globally, maintaining bilateral agreements with most other major financial centres. "Although Australia is a smaller market than the United States, the sophistication, size, and structure ...

Chief economist update: Fundamentally overvalued

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... the de-escalation of the US-China trade tensions (the phase one deal had been signed), Brexit is no longer uncertain and major global central banks continue to maintain accommodative monetary policies. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), for one, is ...

Climate crisis tops list of risks for 2020s

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
... devastating storms across the globe, sea ice loss in the Arctic and record-breaking heatwaves in Europe." It outlines the major climate risks as being loss of life (both human and wildlife), stress on ecosystems, food and water crises, increased migration ...

Chief economist update: Phase one deal signed, sealed and delivered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
... Chinese business confidence which Dr. Zhengsheng Zhong, Director of Macroeconomic Analysis at CEBM Group, nominates as "a major hurdle to stabilizing the economy". So far so good for China. The Caixin China composite PMI eased to a reading of 52.6 in ...

HESTA names chief risk officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
... HESTA has announced the creation of a dedicated risk and compliance role on its executive leadership team, promoting Andrew Major to the position. Until the end of 2019 Major served as general manager, unlisted assets at the super fund. Before joining ...

JPMorgan Chase reports record profits

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
Global financial powerhouse JPMorgan Chase & Co has beat analyst expectations, seeing its most successful year on record. The investment bank raked in $52.8 billion (US$36.4 billion) in the fourth quarter in net income, up 12% from the previous year. ...

Super fund rebrands

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020
... the other fund and it would take some time for us to realise that there had been a mix up," Szuster said. It wasn't a major issue, with the fund only receiving two or three of these calls each week. However, the problem was exacerbated last year ...

Dixon cuts US property fund value

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020
Dixon Advisory has slashed the value of its US property fund by 30%, in yet another blow to the wealth management firm. The responsible entity for the US Masters Residential Property Fund (URF), Walsh & Company, blamed general weakness in the New York ...

Super fund lowers MySuper fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
A $6 billion superannuation fund has lowered fees for its balanced MySuper option. TWUSuper's default members will go from paying $808 per year in total fees to $758 per year for every $50,000 in balance, after changes that came into effect on 1 ...