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Majority of ERS applications from low balance accounts: AMP

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... committed to helping them," Bourguignon said. "It's not surprising the highest rates of applicants work in industries where employment has been most directly impacted, including hospitality, arts and recreation." Bourguignon said the analysis demonstrates ...

Chief economist update: Bad news is good news is back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... from 62.7% in March. But... this is better than market expectations for a jump to 16% (yey). Similarly, total non-farm employment dropped by 20.5 million. Never mind, that's still better than the 21.0 million expected to be handed pink slips. Never ...

Macquarie advice shift offers mixed results

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... high-net-worth clients has in-part paid dividends, thanks to a reduced average headcount which slashed the firm's employment costs. However, the move hasn't come without its own issues. Macquarie also revealed the benefits of its realignment ...

Link feels impact of COVID-19

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... there to be increased fund merger activity and for industry growth of new accounts to slow as a result of the ERS, low employment growth and lower workforce mobility. Addressing the conference, Link Group managing director John McMurtrie said himself ...

Darwinian time for super

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... to gaining scale through the default system or through funds under management growth, or through high-levels of new employment and migration as they slow down, I think all funds will be thinking about inorganic growth through mergers." Asked about the ...

Chief economist update: Will emerging markets be first to emerge?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... that could, working from home. Frozen economic activity - either forced upon is citizens by governments or loss of employment or fear of contracting the disease or all of the above - have sent both developed and emerging equity markets into freefall. ...

Unemployment already over 15%: Roy Morgan

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... related to the situation in late March (post shut-downs)." About 68% of the people that Roy Morgan survey said their employment conditions had changed, reporting factors like: reduced work hours (25% of the participants), some other change including ...

Industry fund adds to executive leadership

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... and Dyda will begin their new roles with the fund on May 15. Their appointments come after their predecessors ceased employment with the fund abruptly earlier this year. Separately, the fund recently revalued its unlisted assets as a result of the market ...

COVID-19 will bite into credit ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... still are) provided backstops to mitigate the painful consequence of frozen economic activity - loss of sales, income, employment, etc. and the societal dislocations that go along them. To do this, most governments around the world are accumulating debt ...

Chief economist update: Stimulus measures ease extreme fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... this year and only easing to 9.1% in 2021. This is affirmed by the continued deterioration in the ISM manufacturing employment index to a reading of 43.8 in March from 46.9 in the previous month; the ISM non-manufacturing employment index to 47 from ...