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Investors pile into companies on life support

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... the market with targeted programs as well as the Federal Government's JobKeeper program." He argues the pandemic's true teeth will be revealed once the JobKeeper supplement ends. "This is when we are likely to see defaults and additional business ...

ASIC delivers thinly veiled warning

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... marginally higher returns with much higher risk profiles." She added that investment products marketed to consumers should be 'true to label'. "Products should not be marketed as having features like low risk of loss, regular returns or easy access to ...

Opportunity for the brave: High yield credit

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... capital structure than equity and therefore would have a higher recovery in the event of a default. "While that is generally true, the trade-off is lower overall returns and generally worse liquidity which can lead to much higher volatility." Despite ...

Aussie banks battered by pandemic

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020
... billion across the banks, up 227.4% from previous period. EY Oceania banking and capital markets leader Tim Dring said the true scale of the damage was hard to quantify, as economic conditions continue to deteriorate. "Impairment charges have increased ...

Australians hate complexity, not annuities: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... don't like them or understand them, leading them to not purchase." The new research indicates that is only partially true. Consumers do struggle to understand annuities. The researchers found that demand would be much higher if annuity options were ...

Chief economist update: Thank goodness for Sorbent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... were inconceivable just a few months ago. They speak to the immense challenge faced by our society to contain the virus." True, true. Then again, the earlier than predicted flattening of Australia's coronavirus infection curve (to date) could see ...

Best, worst performing Aussie equities funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... Companies fund, while BetaShares Managed Risk Australian Share ETF (AUST) and AB Managed Volatility Equities continued to deliver true-to-label downside protection. "Despite the portfolio trading at a materially higher P/E multiple than the broader market ...

Market pain to continue: State Street

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... telling is the dispersion in analyst estimates which in themselves tell how ? difficult it is at the moment to estimate the true impact of this pandemic," Choudhury said. "With continued uncertainty in so many areas, investors should continue to remain ...

BlackRock, BNP Paribas form strategic alliance

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... ability to provide full connectivity to our clients, regardless of their choice of front office architecture, and delivers a true front-to-back solution." Global head of BlackRock's Aladdin business, Sudhir Nair, said the investment manager is "thrilled" ...

Australia versus the world

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... released and that the IMF itself agreed that the government's package will help a great deal," he said. "That might all be true but, in my view, doesn't make the IMF forecasts at all pessimistic." Miller said the reason the downturn may hit Australia ...