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Acadian reduces fees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
Acadian Asset Management has reduced fees for several of the funds it, and its parent company, manage in Australia. The asset manager said in addition to reducing base fees, all performance fees have also been removed. "As a result of the changes, the ...

Chief economist update: Dow 30 thousand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
"Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful." - Warren Buffett History is again bearing witness to the "Sage of Omaha's" widely-known investing principle for who would have dreamed that the US equity market would rally ...

Chief economist update: It's looking up for the land down under

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
... of goods in October 2020 increased $1,978 million (8%) to $25,692 million," the ABS said. But this only underscores the sharp improvement in domestic demand with importation of consumption goods surging by 14% in the month of October while imports of ...

Super sneaks back to $3tn in assets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... statistics from APRA. Despite the effects of the government's early release of super scheme, coupled with market volatility and a sharp economic downturn, the super system has staged a comeback. Total contributions increased 2.9% to $120.2 billion, up ...

JobKeeper saved 700,000 jobs: RBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... Australia (RBA). The Morrison government announced a series of fiscal measures at the start of the year in response to the sharp fall in economic activity due to COVID-19. The central bank collected data on the JobKeeper measure and found it played a ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore to reduce Aussie deficit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... accelerating to 1.8% in October from 0.8% in the previous month and following seven straight months of contraction and a sharp recovery from the 24.5% drop recorded in February this year Industrial production also continued to strengthen - up by 6.9% ...

Chief economist update: A wonderful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
... part-time hires jumped by 81,800. Sure, the unemployment rate inched up to 7.0% from 6.9% in September but this was due to the sharp increase in the participation rate to 65.8% in October from 64.9% in the previous month - indicating workers' confidence ...

Chief economist update: Australian wages slow but still grow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020
While many have seen their wages stagnate, or even drop, this year the latest figures from the Australian Bureau Statistics (ABS) shows wages are up slightly from last year. "The September quarter is generally a quarter of solid wage growth, however ...

Fintechs to merge

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
... support services, allowing InPayTech to sell the Bond platform as a SaaS model. Upon completion, it is the proposed Don Sharp will remain as chair and Paul Collins, Trent Lund and Randolf Clinton will be appointed as directors. The InPayTech board unanimously ...

Chief economist update: Letter V going viral in Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
... viral in Australia (pardon the pun). It was most recently seen in the NAB Business Survey for October, underscored by the sharp rebound in business confidence and business conditions. Australian business confidence jumped to a reading of +5 in October ...