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Low rates support some bond managers: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2020
... these funds feeling the pinch from widening credit spreads. Two clear trends were discernible," Morningstar said. "Unsurprisingly, credit funds that stuck to higher grade instruments tended to fare best." Second, having a bigger bias to Australian dollar ...

World rolls out stimulus

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2020
... other nations around the world have announced their stimulus packages to cushion the economic burden. The largest, unsurprisingly, was US President Donald Trump's "go big" strategy, announcing a US$1 trillion plan with $250 billion for direct cheques ...

Life risk insurance not profitable: KPMG

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
... was "clearly" a large disconnect between the perceived and actual value being delivered by life risk products. "Unsurprisingly, the disruption to life insurance distribution models has noticeably affected revenue growth across the industry," she said. ...

CBA down, industry up for employment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2019
... Macquarie, on the other hand, has steadily been considered one of the top employers in the sector. Ribuot said: "Unsurprisingly, Macquarie ranks highly for salary and benefits - which are the second most important things people look for in an employer. ...

Banks must reshape to survive compliance and technology crunches

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
... pressures and a rapidly evolving competitive environment all pointing to ongoing sector disruption," Dring said. "Unsurprisingly, slowing revenue and upward cost pressures have seen cost-to-income ratios tick up (to an average of 46.7%), as the banks ...

Chief economist update: A pretty picture of the labour market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018
... 13,400 jump in full-time positions in June (after May's 8600 addition). These pretty-ful set of numbers have unsurprisingly triggered a little bit of RBA rate hike speculations. But hold your horses! Before the RBA raises interest rates, it has to ...

Government targeted for delaying Royal Commission

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
... Turnbull Government's initial resistance to the Royal Commission was targeted by social media this week. Perhaps unsurprisingly, much of the criticism was leveled by Labor and Greens politicians - although the former Deputy Prime Minister also expressed ...

Young Aussies driving sharemarket

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2017
... investors, with Baby Boomers up 75% and Gen Y's up 21%, though nabtrade conceded that this was off a low base. Perhaps unsurprisingly, international tech and e-commerce stocks proved most popular across all demographics with Apple, Tesla, Facebook, Tencent ...

Contribution caps cause SMSF cash surge

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2017
... average allocations to Australian equities declined as well, also partially due to market performance. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the top 10 securities held in SMSFs are CBA, Westpac, ANZ, NAB, Telstra, BHP, CSL, Wesfarmers, Woolworths and Transurban. Minus ...

Location, location, location: the key to retirement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2017
... 300,000 Australian retirees shows the cost of retirement varies widely depending on where you live and, perhaps unsurprisingly, those living in major capital cities could benefit most from a change of scenery. The Milliman Retirement Expectations and ...