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Victorian government agency hunts for fund manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2021
... boost for the Victorian startup sector, providing much needed capital to our best early-stage startups to grow and create jobs." The selection panel includes Jasper, LaunchVic board director Aneetha de Silva, Afterpay chair Elana Rubin, Lighter Capital ...

Sydney world's strongest luxury real estate market

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2021
... the pandemic leaving many flush with savings. "Government fiscal stimulus measures have been revised upwards, protecting jobs and incomes via furlough schemes meaning there have been few forced property sales. Banks in key developed markets offered mortgage ...

Super funds back space travel

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021
... going where no Australian business has gone before, which can open up exciting new opportunities for high-tech industries and jobs in Australia, while helping to grow members' retirement savings," she said. Hostplus chief executive David Elia anticipates ...

Industry funds flag $77bn merger

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2021
... local member services, including the Statewide Super Hub in Victoria Square and the office in Darwin, and preserve local jobs. Statewide has been on the hunt for a merger partner for some time. In early 2019, the fund attempted a merger with Tasplan ...

Chief economist update: It's raining jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2021
... the government's JobKeeper scheme ended in March. My back of the envelope calculations shows that a total of 256,000 jobs have been created in the first five months of this year, more than making up for the 96,400 positions lost in 2020. The ABS ...

Your Future, Your Super passes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021
... the first fund they are in, rather than automatically opening up new accounts with different super funds when they get new jobs. It will also see poorly performing funds unable to accept any new members. Cbus was one of the super funds to voice its concerns ...

HESTA managers improve on gender diversity

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
... Sawtell-Rickson says the fund hasn't had the right candidates, even though an increasing number of applications it receives for jobs are now from women candidates. "That is probably the most disappointing area. As you can see on charts, we've ...

Chief economist update: US inflation may not be as transitory as the Fed believes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021
... apart? Wall Street rallied last month when the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that the US economy added 266,000 jobs in April, well-below market expectations for a nearly 1 million gain (978,000 to be exact), but sold off three days later ...

LIC restructures to ETMF

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
... voted in favour of the proposal in May 2021 with the board, including chair Paul Clitheroe, also voting themselves out of jobs. Clitheroe is still a substantial investor in the fund, with approximately half a million dollars in it. The long/short actively ...

Chief economist update: The devil's in the headline US payrolls number details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
... future. The day was June 4 - the day the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that the economy generated only 559,000 jobs in May, missing consensus expectations for the creation of 650,000 to the employment heap. A repeat of the previous month's ...