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Active Super to face action over greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2023
... greenwashing claims, alleging, among other charges, that the super fund was invested in Russian assets after the invasion of Ukraine while purporting otherwise to members. The markets regulator has commenced civil penalty proceedings alleging "misleading ...

Vanguard reveals the premier asset class of the last 30 years

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023
... with its 22 nd annual Index Chart. Despite major global upheavals, including the COVID-pandemic, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the Global Financial Crisis, Australian shares have delivered an average annual return of 9.2% over the past 30 years. ...

Insurance firms defy inflationary shocks

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2023
... global pandemic, in addition to supply chain bottlenecks, central banks tinkering with monetary policy and the invasion of Ukraine. Birt said many life policies are written based on step premiums. Despite the current backdrop, step premiums tend to "step ...

Major economies buoyed by tight jobs market

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2023
... downward trend. Food and fertiliser prices remain historically elevated and are likely to be shored up by a protracted war in Ukraine. Climate disruptions due to the El Nino weather pattern could possibly keep non-energy commodity prices elevated for ...

TelstraSuper MySuper delivers 9.34%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2023
... may slow down economic activity," he said. "We're also wary of the geopolitical tensions that we see between Russia and Ukraine, and between the United States and China. There'll be a presidential election in the US towards the end of 2024, so we're ...

Cbus delivers strong returns, grapples property headwinds

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2023
... to be a very good absolute return, particularly in an environment of high inflation, rising interest rates, the Russia-Ukraine War, and issues in the US regional banking system," he said. Chatfield emphasised that Cbus would maintain its strategic commitment ...

MSCI ponders reclassifying Nigeria, Egypt

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2023
... Argentina, Jamaica, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Lebanon, Malta, Palestine, Ukraine, and Zimbabwe. On June 14 the Central Bank of Nigeria announced operational changes to the FX Market effective immediately. ...

How this budget was built

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... Partly explaining the downward tilt is that the commodities sector which boomed in 2022 thanks to the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war, is now experiencing falling prices for the nation's export staples of LNG, iron ore, coking coal and rural outputs. ...

Budget delivers surplus, with a catch

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... prices, consumer and business confidence, and real activity. Further, the ongoing impacts of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and domestic inflation could dampen household spending through reduced real income and higher for longer interest rates.

Global economic growth hits 20-year low: IMF

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2023
... needed to bring down inflation, the fallout from the recent deterioration in financial conditions, and the ongoing war in Ukraine, the IMF said. "Risks to the outlook are heavily skewed to the downside, with the chances of a hard landing having risen ...