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Pandemic boosts scam complaints

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
The onset of COVID-19 led to a sharp increase in the number of scam-related financial complaints, according to new data from the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA). AFCA's half-year statistics revealed scam-related complaints made up 23% ...

Chief economist update: Confidence contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
Australia is once again being infected - infected with optimism, that is. We have discussed previously how the domestic economy has contracted less sharply than its peers and has rebounded stronger relative to its peer, later confirmed by the OECD 'Economic ...

Chief economist update: OECD sees stronger growth ahead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
... contraction in world GDP in 2020. The US stands out in the OECD's projections with growth forecast at 6.5% this year - a sharp upgrade from the 3.2% expansion it predicted in in its December 2020 quarter report, likely due to the recent passage of ...

Super fund halves admin fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2021
... more often from age 51. On the latter, Mine Super said: "This is an important change as your super won't automatically make sharp and sizeable shifts throughout your working life from one investment option to another." For example, a 53-year-old member ...

Best global equities funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2021
BetaShares and Fidelity's funds topped Rainmaker rankings for risk-adjusted returns for global equities funds for the three years ending December 2020. The report, RMetrics, measures over 1100 products. The international equities rankings included ...

Aware Super eyes another merger

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2021
Aware Super is exploring the possibility of merging with a 63-year-old industry superannuation fund. Aware Super has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Victorian Independent Schools Superannuation Fund (VISSF), looking into whether a merger ...

Global investor confidence suffers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... State Street Associates head of investor behaviour research Rajeev Bhargava said the contraction was driven primarily by sharp declines in risk appetite from Europe's and Asia's institutional investors. "The slower than expected vaccine rollout combined ...

Iress names chair, profit slides

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021
... down as chair following the company's annual general meeting in May, having spent over six years in the position. Roger Sharp has been named as D'Aloisio's replacement. He has over 35 years' experience in governance and is currently the deputy chair ...

T. Rowe Price names president, operations chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
T. Rowe Price has appointed a new president and chief operating officer, promoting an investments veteran and head of finance respectively. Rob Sharps, the new president who will continue to serve as head of investments and group chief investment officer ...

Chief economist update: The US inflation dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2021
... headline PCE inflation at 1.9% and the core PCE at 1.8%. What we're seeing now could just be a corrective reversal from the sharp drop in consumer prices at the onset of the pandemic - a return to normality if you will. If not, I trust the Fed would ...