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Index investing of greater benefit: Vanguard

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022
... Vanguard senior investment strategist Inna Zorina said that the case for low-cost indexing has been around for almost half a century, and still endures. "It boils down to the simple idea that every dollar spent on investing costs is a dollar less earned ...

Low wage growth a deliberate design feature: ACTU

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
... shows that over the entire term of the Morrison government, real wages have fallen by 2.3%. This is the first time this century that workers' real incomes are lower as they head to the polls than they were the last time they voted. Surging inflation ...

Advisers can help female clients 'break the bias'

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... regulatory, senior manager Sarah Conte said. "With the workplace gender equality agency citing it will take a quarter of a century before we close that gap, I think women have the right to say, 'What more can be done?'" Conte said. "What more ...

Learn to live with inflation: BlackRock

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2022
... global investment institute, the global economy is currently entering a new market regime unlike any other in the past century, and experts predict another year of positive equity returns coupled with a down year for bonds. "We think 2022 will be a second ...

Pinnacle hires retail distribution lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2022
... confirmed. Before his new role, Brookman spent one year at Altive, an alternative investment platform backed by Pacific Century Group. He worked at Macquarie Group for 13 years in senior roles working across research and strategic account management. ...

American Century introduces small-cap fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2022
American Century has launched a global small-cap fund targeting Australian wholesale investors. The American Century Global Small Cap Fund is actively managed, investing in companies operating in developed and emerging countries. It tracks the MSCI ...

New head of ESG at American Century

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 JAN 2022
The $250 billion global investment manager American Century Investments has appointed a new head of ESG and sustainable investing. Sarah Bratton Hughes joined the firm on January 3, and will also lead the ESG and investment stewardship team at American ...

Economic recap: Week to October 22

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
... Moderation". However, since the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, inflation died. We've been all witnesses to half-a-century low unemployment rates across many nations around the world and yet inflation remained dead. So much so that in its 13 ...

What family offices want: Report

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2021
... intervention and massive fiscal stimulus turned a global economic shutdown into one of the strongest bull runs of the 21st century, proving that it is imprudent to 'bet against the Fed. The growth that family offices achieved in the period is a standout." ...

Economic recap: Week to October 8

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2021
... inflation and what do we get? We get stagflation -- the financial markets' fear du'jour. It had been nearly half a century ago when the global economy have had its last encounter with stagflation. he first episode came in the mid-1970s. US CPI ...