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Future Fund posts modest growth

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... impacted by the rolling off of strong market performance towards the end of 2019 and the impact of market disruption in March and April. "This will continue to affect one year returns in the next quarter. Looking forward sustaining asset prices at current ...

Invesco winds down fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... also comes at a time lackluster performance. It returned -21.15% in the year to September end, for the A class set up in March 2005. Since inception, the class returned 4.82% p.a. split as growth of 3.52% p.a. and distribution of 2.68% p.a. Invesco last ...

Super fund chief to retire

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... intention to retire. Bill McRobert will depart as chief executive of the Meat Industry Employees' Superannuation Fund (MIESF) in March of next year. The decision brings to an end 13 years of leadership for McRobert, who took over in November 2007. MIESF ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 returns to Europe with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
It won't be long now till we again hear "balcony concertos" - the ones started in Italy back in March this year (and gone viral on cyberspace) when the government imposed a hard lockdown to contain the coronavirus pandemic - for infections in Europe ...

Fresh fundies outperform

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... launching the unregistered managed investment scheme to wholesale and accredited Australian and Singaporean investors in March 2020. While Moors said the investment manager so far has not had much luck with Australian financial advisers due to its two ...

ClearView pushes ahead with SFT

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
... monies from another complying superannuation fund into the plan. The diversified financial services firm flagged the move in March, transferring $1 billion of funds administration to HUB24, starting with its WealthSolutions2 and ClearView Managed Portfolios ...

Budget commitment to aged care not good enough

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... receive two economic support payments, the first of which would be a $250 payment in December and further $250 payment in March 2021. It comes after the government provided a $750 payment in April and July this year, to support aged pensioners during ...

Big banks face shareholder action

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... exposure increased 8% to nearly $20 billion in 2019. NAB's net exposure to gas-fired power surged 106% to $1.17 billion in March 2020, while reported net exposure to oil and gas extraction increased 9.5% to $4.14 billion. Market Forces research coordinator ...

Multi-strategy fund launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
... which I expect to persist for the foreseeable future, and hope that we are able to continue exploiting them as we did in March when the return was 5.66%," Hyams said. "With deposit rates expected to stay at extremely low levels for the long-term, we ...

Tax concessions, infrastructure in focus for budget

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
... to the challenge of our time and consistent with the principles that we laid down at the outset of the pandemic back in March," he said. "The budget will confirm the strong plan we have to recover from the COVID-19 recession and to build our economy ...