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AMP Capital sells clean energy company

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2020
AMP Capital is selling off its entire stake in a European provider of clean energy solutions for an undisclosed figure. AMP Capital and Infracapital, the infrastructure equity investment arm of M&G Plc, became co-owners of Adven in January 2016, taking ...

Westpac scraps SG direct debits

KARREN VERGARA, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2020
... retirement savings worth $3.6 billion, based on Australian Tax Office estimates from 2015. Industry Super Australia thinks this figure is closer to $6 billion. New figures from the ATO reveal that 24,000 employers have come forward and disclosed about ...

Chief economist update: As luck would have it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020
"Australians all let us rejoice... in joyful strains then let us sing, Advance Australia Fair." It wasn't supposed to go this way. Given the re-imposition of lockdown in Melbourne and most Australian states "closed border" policy, financial markets ...

Female ASX 200 chiefs fall

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020
... number of women in chief financial officer roles had increased over the four year period, up from 9% to 16%. However, this figure has flat-lined over the past year. The census found that 30 organisations had achieved gender balance on the executive leadership ...

Managed accounts inch to $80bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2020
... $3.54 billion of the total assets for the period. Funds under management increased $420 million from the December 2019 figure of $79.29 billion. Managed discretionary account services (MDAs) take the lion's share of FUM with $35.28 billion followed ...

Corporates have a critical role in social, environmental outcomes

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2020
Australia's publicly listed companies are increasingly playing a more active role in creating a more sustainable future, but "glaring inadequacies" still remain. That's according to impact investment company Melior's inaugural Australian Impact Report ...

Chief economist update: China's post-pandemic economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2020
"I guess it also rings a bell for some countries, which are still struggling to fight COVID-19, that without strict measures, the virus won't be fended off. We fought hard, this is our payback." Zhang Yong, a small taxi company owner in Wuhan, is ...

ERS applications flat line

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
There appears to be an end in sight for the withdrawal of Australian's retirement savings, with the latest APRA figures showing the amount of applications has flat lined at around three million. Over the week to September 6, only 49,000 applications ...

Chief economist update: Australian pessimism eases

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
... The NAB business confidence index improved to a reading of -8 points in August from -14 in the previous month. The August figure is even more spectacular when compared with the record low -66 points recorded five months before in March. Good but not ...

MySuper products show resilience

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
... MySuper products, representing 70% of this market. The index has essentially reverted to where it was just 11 months ago (see Figure 1). Over a rolling three-year period, returns hit 5.6% per annum. Over a rolling 12-month period, the index registered ...