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Take your CAPE ratio with a grain of salt

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
Earlier this month, for the fourth time in its history, Robert Shiller's CAPE ratio - which tracks market value by measuring earnings data over a 10-year period - surpassed 31. Other times Shiller's ratio has exceeded 31 include the months prior ...

Aussies reevaluate retirement prospects

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
New research has revealed Australians are feeling significantly less confident about their retirement prospects, with many fearing they will have to work longer in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. Surveying 1000 Australians in June, the CFS Retirement ...

Chief economist update: Cheaper prices not a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
Down, down, prices are down... big time! The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported that the country's headline inflation dropped by 1.9% in the June quarter - the largest quarter on quarter decline in the 72-year history that the statistician ...

Westpac discovers additional transaction irregularities

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... child exploitation. The bank says these numbers, while extensive, may not all be breaches of the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006. "A significant proportion of the potential reporting issues relate to a range of complex ...

Investment strategies need to change: GSFM

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... technological disruption," Souders said. "Unlike equities, fixed income does not trade on an exchange, but rather over-the-counter, through a broker dealer community that facilitates all transactions. Heightened regulation in recent years has permanently ...

US pension funds form trading alliance

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
Four US pension funds have partnered to form the Global Peer Financing Association (GPFA), in a bid to increase and encourage peer-to-peer trading activity in the securities lending and repo markets to benefit asset owners. California Public Employees' ...

No such thing as a free lunch: Lowe

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... unhelpful for the supply of credit. They can also encourage people to save more, rather than spend more, so they can be counter-productive from that perspective too. So this is not a direction we need to head in."

HESTA doubles down on climate action

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
The $52 billion industry super fund has called on the Australian government to encourage institutional investors to take a greater role in a green recovery from the economic crisis. It comes just a month after it announced it would reduce absolute carbon ...

ASIC suspends OTC derivatives issuer

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... suspended the Australian financial services licence of Union Standard International Group. The Sydney-based retail over-the-counter derivatives issuer operating as USGFX is suspended until September 23 under 915B of the Corporations Act 200 because it ...

Westpac found to be immature, reactive

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
... 2018, however decided to launch a reassessment following AUSTRAC's allegations the bank breached anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism laws over 23 million times. The controversy led to the former chief executive, Brian Hartzer, and chair, Lindsay ...