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Fidelity portfolio manager resigns

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
... shareholdings were Taiwan Semiconductor, HDFC Bank, AIA Group, NASPERS and Bank Central Asia. The fund returned 3.70% p.a. above the benchmark since its December 2013 inception to March end. At March end, 12-month returns were 38% to the benchmark's ...

Pandemic boosts financial sector's engagement

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
... Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, South Africa and Mexico are the most resilient workers, recording a score of 17% and above. Australia scored 12% in terms of workplace resilience. Low-resilience workers scored 10% or less. "Across all industries ...

Adviser numbers at five-year low

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
... financial advisers have tapered off to levels experienced in 2016 (see Figure 1). About five years ago, adviser numbers floated above 20,000 and peaked at nearly 30,000 at the end of 2018 as the Hayne Royal Commission was finalising its verdict. On a ...

Foreign capital driving property market: RCA

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
... market and vice versa," he said. "What we saw last year was that all major markets in Australia (minus Perth) managed to stay above previous lows. When you look at other markets across the world, we didn't see that because there wasn't that sheer volume ...

Chief economist update: The pause that refreshes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
... is on top of inflation concerns. "We do not seek inflation that substantially exceeds 2 percent, nor do we seek inflation above 2 percent for a prolonged period." Besides, while the Fed expects measured inflation to accelerate, it also believes this ...

Rest launches low-cost SRI option

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... damage, or excessive executive remuneration. Elsewhere, the new option will invest in property assets that have an average or above average GRESB Real Estate Assessment score, and in infrastructure assets with integrated ESG factors that work towards ...

Value managers fight back: Mercer

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... year to March 2021, the Australian Shares Investment Manager Performance Survey revealed the top five funds that delivered above-median returns are Allan Gray Australian Equity, Ausbil Australian Active Equity, ECP AM All Cap, Martin Currie Australia ...

Chief economist update: Copper 10,000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... 10 years earlier. At the current price of US$9,415.00, copper's only 5.9% away and won't be long till it breaks above its decade peak -- not a tall ask given current strong upward momentum and strong underlying fundamentals. Economic activity ...

Two Aussie CIOs on top 100 list

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2021
... was also a sharp contrast to 2019's pre-COVID returns of 14.3%. Longer-term returns (three years and beyond) remained above the target. In 2018, AustralianSuper's head of portfolio construction Alistair Barker was named on Institutional Investor ...

Chief economist update: Australians all let us rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2021
... confidence slipped by 3 points to a reading of +15 in March from the previous month but remains at elevated levels and way above its long-run average of +6. The continued surge in consumer confidence due to the labour market renaissance - suggests further ...