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Pahari to leave AMP amid demerger

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
AMP has confirmed Boe Pahari will leave the business as it pursues a demerger of its Private Markets business, after plans to sell to Ares Management fell through. AMP will demerge its $50 billion Private Markets business from AMP Limited and list it ...

Chief economist update: The pause that refreshes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
The music has stopped, should we cease dancing? Two consecutive days of losses on Wall Street is a very long time in financial markets so much so that "pundits struggle to explain stocks stumble", according to the Australian Financial Review (AFR). ...

Government debt blows out 420%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... developed world. Hong Kong and South Korea recorded similar debt-to-GDP levels. Sivapalan said Australia's 0.76% effective yield on its bonds on issue is much higher than for comparable countries because the economy has been performing strongly. ...

Multi-boutique launches farmland fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
Warakirri Asset Management has launched a new fund, seeded by a European pension fund, providing domestic and offshore institutional investors with exposure to Australian agricultural property. The new Warakirri Farmland Fund will buy, develop and own ...

Chief economist update: No fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021
The coronavirus optimism that prevailed over the dying weeks of 2020 and into the first quarter of this year has been replaced by concerns over the resurgence in infections - in Europe, India, Japan, South Korea and lately, the US, among others - caused ...

Chief economist update: RBA promises support over the next three years

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2021
... on April 6 when it decided to keep current policy settings unchanged - official cash rate at 0.1%; 3-year government bond yield target at 0.1%; and "the parameters of the Term Funding Facility and the government bond purchase program". For sure and for ...

Aussies to lose $100m to fraudsters

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2021
... Vanguard was recently targeted by scammers, who bought advertisements on search engines for terms relating to "bond or high yield investments". When investors click on the ad link, they are taken to a fake investment comparison website with a name like ...

Vanguard targeted in bond fund scam

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
... bond funds. The asset manager said scammers are buying advertisements on search engines for terms relating to "bond or high yield investments". When a person clicks on the ad link, they are taken to a fake investment comparison website with a name like ...

Chief economist update: Too much of a good thing could be a bad thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
Healthier consumers are happier consumers are spending consumers. US consumer confidence has rebounded to its highest level since the onset of the pandemic in America in March last year. This is hardly surprising with cases of coronavirus infections ...

Lowy-backed Assembly acquires childcare centres

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2021
... Childcare has proven to be a highly resilient asset class in the face of economic turbulence and offers good value in a low-yield macroenvironment," Assembly head of transactions Tim Meurer said. "By comparison, the direction of other asset classes such ...