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Hostplus ups income protection premiums by 73%

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
... with our trustee responsibility of acting in the best interests of Hostplus members. We will try to contact you prior to selling any of your holdings in Choiceplus." Hostplus said in a statement: "These changes are broadly in line with recent competitor ...

Advisers bolt to cash, gold

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
... are at the moment, every basis point counts." While Vynokur said he does not have the visibility to see what clients are selling out of, hypothetically speaking he knows that clients are de-risking which is why BetaShares has seen higher allocation towards ...

Boutique launches multi-asset fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2020
... asset allocation will be 60% defensive assets and 40% growth assets. The fund is permitted to obtain leverage via short selling (set at maximum 10% of gross asset value) or derivatives. It is managed by David Lewis (also the deputy chief investment officer) ...

Housing values continue to slide

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
... distancing polices are likely to further push consumer sentiment down. This is likely to weigh on both home buying and selling activity more broadly." The most expensive quartile of housing is leading the downturn in values, particularly in Sydney and ...

Best performing managed funds revealed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... AU Index. "It's not even actively managed in the sense that there is no human portfolio manager making buying and selling decisions on a day to day basis," Rainmaker said. "The strategy is to follow a constructed index as closely as possible, in ...

Land tax, not stamp duty: Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
... report into reforming GST and reducing inefficient taxes has reignited calls for the scrapping of stamp duty when buying or selling a home, to be replaced by a broad-based land tax. The NSW Review of Federal Financial Relations draft report says there ...

Chief economist update: The post-pandemic problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... coronavirus would restrain household spending and lift savings. Reduced household purchases would force businesses to lower selling prices to maintain revenue (at the very least) and reduce investment on plant, machinery and equipment staff - suggesting ...

Chant West, Zenith agree on acquisition

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
... across offices in both Sydney and Melbourne. "We don't have any pressure to cut costs, it's more about the cross-selling opportunity...Since Five V [which is a majority owner in Zenith], we have actually added to a chief operating officer, chief ...

Robo users double down during COVID-19

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
... to remain calm and avoid the classic investing trap of emotionally led decisions which typically leads to bad outcomes (selling after market falls, and buying back in after the main recovery)," Garrett said. Slightly more clients than usual did close ...

Disgraced lobbyist charged

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
... its chief executive Marcus Andrade, along with Abramoff, raised at least US$5.6 million from more than 2400 investors by selling AML BitCoin tokens. The regulator found NAC and its chief executive had portrayed the AML BitCoin as being superior to the ...