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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 ...

APRA resumes life insurance intervention

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... has seen the industry lose $3.4 billion in just five years. However, the intervention was put on hold due to COVID-19 in March. Since December, APRA said life insurers and friendly societies have lost a further $1.4 million due to the sale of individual ...

Perpetual successor fund transfer to go ahead

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... MySuper accounts will be transferred to CareSuper on or around 30 October 2020. "We wrote to Perpetual MySuper members in March 2020 to advise of the transfer to CareSuper scheduled for 1 May 2020. Due to market volatility and uncertainty caused by COVID-19 ...

Chief economist update: The W in the second wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... since 2019 - notes that some countries are reporting more cases now than they did during the peak pandemic (sometime in March/April), prompting the re-imposition of some restrictions. When it left, you left too. The impact on the economy is already captured ...