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APRA commends super funds on tough year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2021
... same time," he said. Byres added that despite the financial system holding up well as a whole, the full effect of the pandemic may not yet have been felt. "To date, the financial system has stood up well to the shock caused by COVID-19," he said. "However ...

Aware expands affordable housing portfolio

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2021
... income and real assets at Aware, told Financial Standard that the units will be offered at a 20% discount. During the pandemic, one area of concern Aware heard from its members was the issue of housing affordability. "We felt it was important to devise ...

Investors unprepared for unexpected events: Study

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2021
... real-time information is used in risk management and crisis response. Dataminr chief executive Ted Bailey said the COVID-19 pandemic has made companies aware of their weak spots. "At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, enterprises all over the world ...

Chief economist update: NIRP embedded in BOE forecasts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2021
... 2021 quarter before recovering in the following three quarters to end with a 5% expansion this year and return to pre-pandemic levels by the first quarter of 2022. "CPI inflation is currently below the MPC's 2% target, largely reflecting the direct ...

Fund manager expands, hires two executives

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021
... cautious with respect to the structural impacts of COVID-19 and its effect on broader equity markets, we believe the pandemic has created an inflexion point to accelerate online adoption. As a result, many of our portfolio holdings are likely to be material ...

Chief economist update: Oil gush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021
... the New Year. Well, they have to bounce some time especially given the battering it received in 2020 as the covid-19 pandemic grounded planes, trains and automobiles and cruise liners and shuttered most factories and businesses on planet earth, driving ...

Australians Googling for advice

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2021
... superannuation, scams and misconduct," said Allan Gray Australia chief operating officer JD de Lange. "It appears the pandemic caused us to pay closer attention to matters related to the preservation of our finances, now and into the future. Superannuation ...

Schroders adjusts fund return targets

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
... has lowered its real return funds' targets as a result of low interest rates and bond yields and the impact of the pandemic on economies around the world. The Schroder Real Return CPI Plus 3.5%, Schroder Real Return CPI Plus 5% and Schroder Real ...

Chief economist update: Overvaluation tests FOMO and TINA trades

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
... capital even at zero interest rates. In the general scheme of macro things, nothing has changed. The worst of the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us. Sure, there's the UK and South African variant outbreak - considered to be more highly infectious - ...

Billionaires profit from pandemic: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021
The nation's wealthiest saw their fortunes increase by nearly $85 billion during the COVID-19 pandemic, a global survey highlighting the widening income-inequity gap shows. Thirty-one Australian billionaires saw their bank balances swell between March ...