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VGI Partners global LIC posts 25.6% returns

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2021
... not disclosed. VGI's holding in Pinterest dropped during the period, as the platform's business suffered from unwinding of COVID related usage uptick. VG1 initiated the position in June 2020 and wants to opportunistically add to the position, as it sees ...

Perpetual LIC turns around performance

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2021
... which allows the team to adapt to changing market conditions and make adjustments accordingly. "The market volatility led by COVID-19 provided opportunities to invest in companies with strong balance sheets which we believed were undervalued and would ...

SelfWealth reports 135% revenue increase

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2021
... Australian first. And it will focus on developing data and analytics to better understand customer behaviour. "The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, ultra-low global interest rates and the continuing digitisation of investment markets have all contributed to ...

World Pension Alliance condemns COVID early release

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021
... of Pension Fund Administrators (FIAP) endorsement to the OECD about the practice, just as Chile and Peru look to extend COVID pension withdrawal schemes. "Unrestricted withdrawal of pension savings intended to provide retirement income without repayment ...

Macquarie AM acquires logistics centre

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021
... country's largest furniture retailer. "Europe's supply chains are constantly evolving and have been further accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic which is expected to have long-lasting effects on e-commerce," MAM co-head of real estate team in Europe ...

Wage growth remains low

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021
... growth was influenced somewhat by the initial dip in wages recorded in June quarter 2020, when the first impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic were recorded in the wage price index." The depressed wage growth is despite low unemployment in Australia - hovering ...

Advised clients 5.2% better off

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2021
... contribution to clients is their behavioural coaching role, which was most beneficial from the onset of the pandemic. During COVID, a critical mistake non-advised investors made was to abandon their long-term investment strategies and sell out of equities ...

Accountants warn of lockdown cost

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2021
An Australian-first survey of accountants asking for their views on the economic impact of COVID-19 has revealed a pessimistic outlook. Nearly half of surveyed accountants are "fairly" or "extremely" worried about the state of the Australian economy ...

Financial services market skyrockets

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2021
... representing over a third of the entire market with a value of $3.83 trillion. Roy Morgan chief executive Michele Levine said COVID-19 government stimulus attributed to the growth in the overall market. "The huge injection of hundreds of billions of ...

Sydney Airport rejects AustralianSuper takeover

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2021
... vaccination rates increase and we move into a post pandemic recovery period," the company said. "It has rapidly adapted to the COVID environment, strengthening its balance sheet and tightly managing costs to maintain flexibility to respond to a range ...