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Industry fund awards $500m mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2019
... inflation plus products, Block said in a May interview with Financial Standard. "We wanted to ensure our bond product was true to label with duration matching the index," he said. Building real assets positions ACRF has also increased it exposure to ...

Super fund introduces further group insurance changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2019
... benefit period. When it comes to death and TPD claims, women typically claim at a lower rate than men, while the opposite holds true for income protection claims, the super fund said. "To recognise this, we have introduced gender-based pricing." Members ...

Chief economist update: RBA justified to cut rates or not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019
... bet that the cash rate would be at 1% by Tuesday next week. But predictions are just that, guesses. Fairy tales could come true, it could happen to you but they still could be wrong. Just as the Big Four and financial markets were mistaken when they ...

OnePath updates trauma definitions

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2019
... from 1 December 2018. Zurich head of OnePath propositions and group life Gerard Kerr said this project demonstrates "the true spirit and drive of OnePath". "From the outset, we wanted to ensure our policy holders benefited from improving definitions ...

Beware tech firms in financial services

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2019
... explains big techs' low-cost business models can easily be scaled up to provide basic financial services and this is especially true in countries where large parts of the population might not have a bank. The tech companies with the most complete financial ...

Super figures point to NSW victory

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2019
... NSW 6 6 6 4 22 QLD 2 1 1 1 5 However, those who pay close attention to State of Origin know there are two things which hold true each and every year: The contest is always tight The Maroons perform best with their backs against the wall As it turns out ...

Australians retire too wealthy: Grattan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... their financial health. "Over 65 households say they are under much less financial pressure than young people, and that's true even for renters," Daley said. When Knox took to the stage, one of the things he pointed out was that many elderly people ...

Ethical funds not ambitious enough: Future Super

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... companies while claiming to impact the corporate behaviour of those companies positively by being active investors. "It's not true that through corporate engagement you can turn a fossil fuel company into an environmentally friendly company. Fossil ...

Chief economist update: The greatest challenge of our time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
... is "one of the major challenges of our time", saying: "That's something that central banks face all over the world." True that. The chart below shows latest core CPI inflation measures among the world's major economies remain below their stated ...

Chief economist update: Glass half-full or US recession on the way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
... stimulative. Maybe real rates are not near zero - they're at 2% or 3%." Nakamura argues ancient measures don't reflect the true size of the modern economy, with its multitude of free services which have raised quality of life and lowered the ...