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PRI chief executive resigns

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
... her home country of Australia, during her time leading the PRI has been challenging on a personal level. "The COVID-19 pandemic has made this more difficult in many ways, particularly with the ongoing closure of borders, and so has hastened my decision. ...

Chief economist update: The devil's in the headline US payrolls number details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
... million persons reported that they had been unable to work because their employer closed or lost business due to the pandemic" is "down from 9.4 million in the previous month". Yes Virginia, there were less Americans unable to work in May than there ...

Chief economist update: Australia on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021
... the Australian economy expanded by 1.8% in the March 2021 quarter - the third consecutive quarter of growth since the pandemic-induced recession in the March and June quarters of 2020 - taking the annual growth in GDP up to 1.1% and national output above ...

Investors move to thematic funds

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
... Assets in thematic funds in Australia have grown exponentially in the last year after showing stellar results through the pandemic but performance over the long term is lacklustre, new research shows. Morningstar's latest Global Thematic Funds Landscape ...

Chief economist update: OECD upgrades global growth but advises continued policy support

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
"The global economy has now returned to pre-pandemic activity levels." This was what the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) latest 'Economic Outlook' report revealed as it upgraded its projections for the world ...

PEXA to IPO in June

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
... prior corresponding period. PEXA made $99.3 million in revenue, up 27% year on year, which was due to the impact of the pandemic shifting conveyancing to the online platform.

Chief economist update: The UK's going OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
... But as the BOE warned at its May meeting, the economic outlook remains uncertain and depends on the "evolution of the pandemic". Cases of infection from the Indian variant are rising in the country and threatens the planned removal of all restrictions ...

Chief economist update: Victoria's victory against the virus voided

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2021
... rate fell from 5.7% in March to 5.5% in April - just 0.2 percentage points (or 33,000 people) above the start of the pandemic and 2.0 percentage points below the 7.5% high recorded in July 2020 and the sixth straight monthly decline in the jobless rate. ...

Super funds hunt for co-investment deals

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
... by private capital investors who will be able to play a lead role in helping to stabilise businesses disrupted by the pandemic, and to invest into sectors that need to go through phases of structural transformation to become stronger and more sustainable ...

What Gen Z think about investing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
... investments. Of those who have invested, 82% made their first investment in 2020 or 2021. In fact, market volatility during the pandemic proved a tempting time to invest for many. One quarter of all respondents across all generations reported making ...