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Super funds drop Russian assets

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2022
... across our investment portfolios to achieve this outcome acknowledging that our ability is somewhat hampered by the Russian Central Bank ordering market brokers to reject foreign clients trying to sell Russian securities," Hostplus said. A spokesperson ...

Learn to live with inflation: BlackRock

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2022
... Australians to be resilient. "We are all going to have to learn to live with inflation, be your consumer and investor or a central banker," Powell said. "Why we think that's the case of central bankers in particular policy, or more generally, is ...

Australia confirms economic sanctions against Russia

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2022
... Russian banks from the SWIFT global payments messaging system. They also include restrictive measures to prevent the Russian Central Bank from using its international reserves in a way that undermines sanctions. Further, so-called "golden passports" ...

Biggest ever super merger completes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2022
... fundamental investment approaches. "Unlisted assets have been a core part of both portfolios and the other thing that has been central to both portfolios is a belief that you don't pay for active management where you believe it's hard to extract ...

EM investors brace for geopolitical impact

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2022
... economic conditions could mean that market outcomes are less satisfactory if the conflict cannot be contained, especially if central banks make a policy error," she said. "In examining sharemarket behaviour over the past hundred years, we think it is ...

Chief economist: Is this a buy op?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2022
... is understandable given the uncertainty Russia's invasion creates for investors everywhere. For one, it complicates central banks' efforts to control inflation. Never mind other commodity prices, the price of crude oil has shot up on the back ...

Chief economist: Thank you, Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2022
... withdrawal of fiscal and monetary policy stimulus measures that are creating the current correction in equity and bond markets. Central banks and governments are draining (or about to) liquidity to prevent inflation from running far away from their targets. ...

Goldman Sachs appoints alternatives head

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2022
Goldman Sachs Asset Management has appointed a managing director to lead its alternatives capital markets and strategy group in Australia and New Zealand. Craig Balenzuela steps into the position and will be based in Sydney. He joins from QIC, where ...

Big tech, interest rates dominate reporting season

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2022
... which begs the question, where to from here, given investors are basking in the afterglow of an unprecedented, coordinated central bank pandemic response," he said.

What fund selectors want: Natixis

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2022
... economic threats for 2022 are. In first place, 51% are most concerned about supply chain disruption, 45% said less supportive central bank policy is their main concern, 40% cited COVID-19 variants, 39% are most concerned about US/China relations and ...