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Analysts remain wary as ASX breaks 7000

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
The S&P/ASX 200 Index has broken the 7000 mark following news of Trump and China finally signing a trade deal, but analysts remain wary of the new record high. The Index gained 47 points on Thursday to finish at 7041.8, setting a new record high for ...

Regulation costly, time consuming: CSIRO

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
The CSIRO has recommended a more lenient approach to regulation in the corporate world in a submission to the Senate Select Committee on Financial Technology and Regulatory Technology. The science body noted that Australia's strong regulatory environment ...

Chief economist update: Fundamentally overvalued

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
"I see trees of green, red roses too..." Louis Armstrong's immortal classic played on my head as rain started pouring on this burning land - even did a rain dance in my backyard - and meteorologists forecast more to come that hopefully extinguishes ...

Climate crisis tops list of risks for 2020s

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
For the first time, climate crisis and environmental degradation have taken out the top five spots in a list ranking the risks most likely to impact the world over the coming decade. It comes as extreme weather events batter the world; with fires burning ...

Revolution Asset Management launches second fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
Bob Sahota's private debt boutique has raised $100 million for its second fund with a Sydney superannuation fund onboard again as an investor. The Revolution Private Debt Fund II follows the boutique's inaugural fund which raised $200 million ...

BlackRock wakes up to climate change

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
BlackRock will double its ESG ETF offerings, dump investments in thermal coal and increase sustainable assets under management tenfold this decade. All this, just six months after it was revealed that BlackRock lost more than $133 billion by investing ...

VanEck launches new income product

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
VanEck has launched a new model portfolio, set on generating income of at least 2% more per annum than the consumer price index. The ETF provider has drawn on research house Lonsec's portfolio construction expertise to strategically allocate assets ...

GAM partners with SimCorp

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
GAM Investments has signed a new long term licence agreement with investment management solutions provider SimCorp. The global asset manager will partner with SimCorp to consolidate its external front and middle office systems on to a single platform. ...

Bank of Mum and Dad forking out serious dosh

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020
More young Aussies are turning to their parents, the appropriately dubbed 'Bank of Mum and Dad', to help secure equity for a first home deposit, and financial advisers are split on the growing trend. For some, the lucky few, the money for the ...

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 ...