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Australian Retirement Trust announces next merger partner

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2022
... merge with ART. The APSS trustee's independent chair Mark Birrell said the merger will enable APSS to tap into the economies of scale that ART brings, given it has more than $230 billion in funds under management and over two million members. "It's ...

Supply chain, labour shortage fears: Analysts

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2022
... analyst's survey, revealing analysts have serious concerns about ongoing supply chain disruption and labour shortages as economies recover from the pandemic. The annual Fidelity survey of analysts covering energy, consumer discretionary, healthcare ...

ESG funding booms in Australia: Calastone

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2022
... grown exponentially, following trends we are seeing elsewhere in the world, and we expect this to continue in 2022 as economies reopen," Calastone managing director, head of Australia and New Zealand Teresa Walker said. "In some markets, ESG equity funds ...

Global markets shaken by war

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2022
... Russia's invasion of Ukraine overnight, with analysts keeping a close watch on the conflict's impact on companies and economies. IG market analyst Kyle Rodda said he views the current situation as a growth and inflation shock, one that is difficult to ...

Economists expect a rate rise: Finder

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022
... only just entered the target band after more than five years below it, and remains lower than in most other advanced economies," Eslake said. "Two, wage inflation is nowhere near the 3.5% the RBA has said it needs to be to be consistent with inflation ...

Tasmania leads economic recovery

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2022
... Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT and Northern Territory. However, there is little separating the other economies based on CommSec's metrics. The January 2022 survey found that lockdowns weighed on the economic performances of NSW and the ...

Investors should embrace alternatives: J.P. Morgan

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2022
... on helping our clients see the forest and the trees, by considering not just the short-term outlook for markets and economies, but also the bigger picture challenges and opportunities across alternative investments," J.P. Morgan Asset Management head ...

Inflation to retreat in 2022: Fund manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2022
... across the globe respond to high inflation data. "Central banks are currently trying to balance the need to support economies with a growing need to bring up the cost of money, which has been abnormally distorted by COVID-19," he said. "In short, this ...

Water, water everywhere but nothing to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2022
... social responses. The year 2020 brought lockdowns and social restrictions that, in turn, sent many (if not most) global economies into a deep recession. The year 2021 brought a recovery as government and central bank largesse succeeded in keeping incomes ...

Australian billionaires double fortunes during pandemic: Oxfam

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2022
... this crisis for their own profit," Morgain said. The report also notes the significance of the world's two largest economies, the US and China, starting to consider policies that reduce inequality, including by imposing higher tax rates on the rich ...