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Frontier Advisors makes key appointments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
Asset consultant Frontier Advisors has announced several new faces will be joining its senior team. Joe Clark and James Bulfin will join Frontier's alternatives and derivatives research team as senior consultants. Clark joins from QIC where he was senior ...

Dividends could take years to return: UBS

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
UBS estimates that it may take over three years to return to 2019 dividend payouts due to COVID-19 related cuts and suspensions. UBS equity strategist Pieter Stoltz said, based on UBS forecasts, market earnings per share (EPS) will not return to financial ...

AustralianSuper pays out $320m

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
AustralianSuper has already paid out close to $320 million to members under the early release scheme as it readies to release a further $330 million. The super fund said it has received requests from about 85,000 members so far, representing about $650 ...

Chief economist update: BOJ expands Enhancement of Monetary Easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) added another monetary policy term to our vocabulary at its March 2020 meeting - Enhancement of Monetary Easing - as it tries to limit the economic fallout from the coronavirus. It had the same label for its expanded policy initiative ...

Bitcoin bonanza amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
The investment world's underdog has seen a surge in interest since it hit rock bottom in March, outperforming the US market indices by a mile. Bitcoin, which started the year rising from US$7500 to US$10,5O0, fell just as badly as every other asset ...

A case for flexible asset allocation: First Sentier

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
Investment managers with fixed multi-asset allocations may have been better served by a flexible approach during the COVID-19 crisis. That's according to First Sentier Investors, who argue a flexible, dynamic multi-asset approach to investing can ...

ANZ accused of exploiting staff

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
The Finance Sector Union has accused ANZ of exploiting staff in an effort to pad out its results, with the big bank hitting back. An FSU spokesperson said the union had received "hundreds" of complaints after ANZ asked all staff to take their accrued ...

Businesses urged to apply for JobKeeper

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
The Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise ombudsman Kate Carnell is concerned that many small businesses may not be applying for the JobKeeper scheme. Carnell said there is a concern from many small business owners that they cannot afford ...

Top asset consultants named

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
Peter Lee Associates has released the results of its investment management survey naming Australia's top ranked asset consultant. Willis Towers Watson and Frontier Advisors share the top spot this year after surveying around 100 chief investment ...

COVID-19 will bite into credit ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
Nothing focuses the mind as the choice between life and death. This choice has been thrust onto Planet Earth's population by the coronavirus pandemic. So much so, that men, women and children of the world are giving up - willingly or grudgingly ...