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Chief economist update: Lowe taking interest rates lower

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
... in November. "When the pandemic was at its worst and there were severe restrictions on activity we judged that there was little to be gained from further monetary easing. The solutions to the problems the country faced lay elsewhere. As the economy opens ...

Through good and bad: Advisers add value

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... found 67% didn't know how their funds were invested or relied on the default option, investing with an asset allocation of little to no relevance to their personal circumstances. "Advisers provide important access to funds and strategies a client may ...

Death of value investing a myth: Realindex

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... poor quality and growth stocks with high quality. "There is an assumption that in a continued low growth world, there is little hope for poor quality names to outperform, and thus value is as good as dead. However, our empirical analysis shows it's not ...

Disruption not sustainable: Schroders

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2020
... commodities like alumina and oil which have been the reverse, will not. "The way that we see is that they are subject to little threat from tech, it's easy to say disruption is the word of the day but alumina and oil is not going to be disrupted by Software ...

Adviser sentenced to eight years' prison

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
... escalating the issue to the police. "The fact that he got sentenced to eight years, I think is good for the industry. It's a little disappointing that the non-parole period is only two years and eight months," Trapnell said. He likened Dick's ...

Several black holes in budget

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2020
... chief executive Debby Blakey said the budget directed many stimulus measures towards male-dominated industries and will do little to address entrenched social and gender inequality holding back the economy. "It's particularly disappointing that the ...

Super industry cautious on more reform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... cautious in its response. Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) chief executive Eva Scheerlinck was a little more cautious in her response to the budget, with more superannuation reform. "We will need to see the stapling scheme in more ...

Funding for housing to decrease

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... the move to further extend the scheme so first home buyers can obtain a loan to build a new dwelling for a deposit of as little as 5%. The government is enabling the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation to issue an additional $1 billion ...

Benchmark-lagging LIC faces strategic review

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... spokesperson for the fund told Financial Standard that TGG has approximately $270 million in funds under management, with a little over 4500 shareholders.

Sunsuper adds long/short to Aussie equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... reducing the cost of borrowing those stocks to the manager," he said. "...That process allows us to sweat out assets a little bit more as well. So we should be getting a higher return from some of the passive assets following this process, which lowers ...