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Self-isolation to accelerate secular trends

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
The world's new reality will soon be defined by social distancing and self-isolation. And while that might be sad for most of us, some stand to benefit incredibly from the new normal. Speaking with Financial Standard, Antipodes Partners chief investment ...

Opportunities and threats amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... within Australia's listed sectors. Although the unprecedented speed of the changing economic landscape is making the assessment of valuation difficult, the indiscriminate sell-off has opened up investment opportunities, Nikko Asset Management head of ...

CBA in court over RC case studies

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... Credit Act when it failed to enquire about of verify the customer's financial circumstances prior to making an assessment to increase his credit limit. It also alleges CBA breached sections 131(1) and 133(1) in failing to assess that the credit limit ...

Stopping SG is nuclear response to COVID-19

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
... economy have been panned. Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia chief executive Martin Fahy was blunt in his assessment of the situation. "These are anxious times and a strong fiscal response is warranted, but raiding Australia's superannuation ...

Major firms criticised for substandard RI approach

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... total assets under management - around USD$36 trillion - in its report are managed by firms who scored poorly in its assessment of their approach to responsible investment. The list of asset managers with "particularly poor ESG performance" include the ...

Super women: Female-led funds on top

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020
Super funds with female trustees and female leaders can boost their member's super by $100,000 over their working life. That's according to the latest data coming out of Rainmaker Information, which found that female-led funds with MySuper products ...

Chief economist update: Australia's gentle turning point to turn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
... first two months of this year, and that's on top of the 0.2% subtraction caused by the bushfires. In its "Interim Assessment, Coronavirus: the world economy at risk" report (published 2 March 2020), the Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation ...

Morningstar boosts financial planning capabilities

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... to third-party planning tools," the research house said. Using an academically-validated psychometric risk tolerance assessment, FinaMetrica Profiler, has been used by more than 10,000 advisers in 35 countries since 1998, giving advisers confidence in ...

Regulator clamps down on misleading ESG fund names

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is calling for public comment on how funds are named, in an effort to restrict the use of potentially misleading fund names. ESG, responsible and ethical funds are under the spotlight as the SEC seeks to protect ...

Chief economist update: The C word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2020
... coordinated/concerted response wasn't announced until the share markets took a dive. Even the OECD's Interim Economic Assessment report (Coronavirus: The world economy at risk), where it cut its 2020 world economic growth outlook by 0.5% to 2.4% ...