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Charter Hall industrial fund scores top Lonsec rating

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
Charter Hall's Direct Industrial Fund No.4 (DIF4) scored Lonsec's top rating. The independent research house rated DIF4 as Highly Recommended, noting its portfolio was 100% occupied by "high-quality tenants" and was well positioned in terms of future ...

MySuper lacks risk and return correlation: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
New research suggests investment objectives of superannuation funds should be assessed on their own merit as the level of risk does not always directly link to returns. Rainmaker's inaugural RMetrics MySuper report took a deep dive into the relationship ...

Chief economist update: Australia needs a cheaper A$

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
If it were posted on Facebook, Wall Street would have "unliked" the strong US non-farm payrolls report for June - up a bigger-than-expected 224,000 from 72,000 in May. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate ticked up to 3.7% from 3.6% in May, remains near ...

Industry funds surge ahead in satisfaction

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2019
... satisfied their members are with their fund's financial performance over the last 12 months, according to latest Roy Morgan research. In May last year, 62% of industry fund members said they were very or fairly satisfied with their fund's financial performance ...

Deutsche Bank slashes global workforce, exits global equities

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2019
... Bank's local equities business comprises equity trading, equity sales, prime finance, equity derivatives and company research of top ASX-listed companies. Australia also has corporate and investment banking, and fixed income and currencies operations. ...

New chief executive at Evans Dixon

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2019
... management in its funds management business, and it works with institutions on corporate advisory, capital market services and research in its corporate and institutional business.

Government extends early retirement scheme

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2019
The government announced it will extend the concessional tax treatment of genuine redundancy and early retirement scheme payments to those under age pension qualifying age. The Treasury Laws Amendment (2019 Measures) Bill 2019 will amend the tax law ...

Chief economist update: BOE flips tightening bias to easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2019
The strong US non-farm payrolls report - employment grew by 224,000 in June, beating expectations for a 160,000 gain and a sharp rebound from the 72,000 added in the previous month - failed to remove or even reduce the odds for a Fed rate cut this month. ...

Fund managers lag on ESG

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... years, the report said. Pendal Group (ASX: PDL) Pendal's ESG positives on the report included its purchase of ESG research house Regnan, lower than sector average turnover for FY18 and a target of having 40% women at board and executive level by ...

JANA hires operations lead, boosts workforce

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... of retail partnerships. The following senior consultants have joined JANA: Tania Freeman moved to the private equity research team; Jennifer Cowan joined the property research team; and Laura Purbrick consults to a range of superannuation funds. A number ...