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Frontier Advisors makes key appointments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
Asset consultant Frontier Advisors has announced several new faces will be joining its senior team. Joe Clark and James Bulfin will join Frontier's alternatives and derivatives research team as senior consultants. Clark joins from QIC where he was senior ...

Bitcoin bonanza amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
The investment world's underdog has seen a surge in interest since it hit rock bottom in March, outperforming the US market indices by a mile. Bitcoin, which started the year rising from US$7500 to US$10,5O0, fell just as badly as every other asset ...

A case for flexible asset allocation: First Sentier

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
Investment managers with fixed multi-asset allocations may have been better served by a flexible approach during the COVID-19 crisis. That's according to First Sentier Investors, who argue a flexible, dynamic multi-asset approach to investing can ...

ANZ accused of exploiting staff

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
The Finance Sector Union has accused ANZ of exploiting staff in an effort to pad out its results, with the big bank hitting back. An FSU spokesperson said the union had received "hundreds" of complaints after ANZ asked all staff to take their accrued ...

Top asset consultants named

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
Peter Lee Associates has released the results of its investment management survey naming Australia's top ranked asset consultant. Willis Towers Watson and Frontier Advisors share the top spot this year after surveying around 100 chief investment ...

Billionaires club rakes in cash amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
Since the beginning of the year, America's wealthiest billionaires have seen their wealth increase by millions, with eight seeing their net worth surge by more than US$1 billion dollars. The latest research from the Institute for Policy Studies revealed ...

Billions withdrawn from super

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has confirmed $3.8 billion in withdrawals from super was approved by the ATO over the course of three days. Frydenberg said the average withdrawal was $8000 and the super funds will now begin to release the money. "Those applications ...

Markets react as antiviral drug disappoints

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
News that a highly anticipated antiviral drug hoped to treat COVID-19 had flopped in human trials saw markets fall overnight. Originally reported by the Financial Times, the publisher said Gilead Sciences antiviral drug remdesivir did not reduce the ...

Compliance worse than COVID-19

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
Regulatory and compliance burden is a bigger challenge and disruption for financial advisers than COVID-19, the global pandemic that has ripped both economies and lives to shreds. In an interview with Financial Standard, Investment Trends research director ...

The next big short

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
Late last year, before extreme weather events battered the world, before COVID-19, The Big Short 's Michael Burry said he had found the next bubble: passive investments. Now, with asset prices trembling in the face of the pandemic, could there still ...