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RBA prepares to scale up bond buying

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
The Reserve Bank of Australia kept interest rates steady at its July meeting but said it is standing ready to scale-up its bond buying purchases again to ensure bond markets remain functional. The RBA board decided to maintain the current policy settings ...

New player in geared, index-shorting ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... in attracting investors to its geared, index-shorting ETFs during COVID's market decline, another player is getting ready to throw its hat in the ring. ETF Securities is set to launch new ETFs based on the NASDAQ 100 -- one that provides a leveraged ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020
... sense, comprehensive steps to boost the economy are not in place yet." Both the government and the central bank have to stand ready to provide more support if they are to avoid (or at least mitigate) the OECD's latest prediction for a 6.0% contraction ...

Asgard, Future Super shamed on ERS

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2020
... cash, this is particularly true for our platform customers such as Asgard," the spokesperson said. "To help ensure we were ready to respond to ATO applications as quickly as possible we recruited and trained over 100 additional staff in our Australian ...

Raiz Super bleeds red

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
... further withdrawals in July. However, Raiz Invest chief executive George Lucas maintains the investment platform is liquid and ready to weather further withdrawals thanks to its investments in ETFs. In May, funds in the company's super product lifted ...

Chief economist update: What to expect when you're expecting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... there's been no change to that thinking." A second wave could force the RBA into NIRP but with the government at the ready and willing to lend a helping hand, expect the official cash rate to remain at 0.25% in the immediate future.

IFM Investors ready to ramp up corporate lending

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
The industry-super-owned fund manager's credit team has about $500 million to deploy in the year ahead, eyeing opportunities in lending to mid-sized companies that will be forced to refinance after the COVID-19 crisis. IFM's credit team manages about ...

Challenger launches new retirement tool

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
... trying to tackle perhaps some of those behavioural biases that we were seeing, and do some of the work so that they were more ready for an advice conversation," Murphy said. The tool - which has been in development for much of the last year - uses gamification ...

Chief economist update: Powell blamed for fall on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... setting the timing and pace of the economic recovery. Since the answers are currently unknowable, policies will need to be ready to address a range of possible outcomes." Even the Fed's aversion to negative interest rates had been conveyed by other ...

AMP defends hefty remuneration bill

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... on AMP's commitment to financial advice. "Calls to our financial advisers are at an all time high," he said. "AMP is ready to take a leadership role to find a fit for purpose financial advice model in Australia." De Ferrari said the demand for financial ...