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Aware Super, MIRA acquisition progresses

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
The Foreign Investments Review Board (FIRB) has approved the $4.6 billion acquisition of Vocus by a consortium made up of Aware Super and Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA). The consortium's bid values Vocus at $5.50 per share, which is ...

Chief economist update: It's raining jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2021
"It's raining men! Hallelujah! It's raining men!" -The Weather Girls Australian 'men' (and women) at work' that is. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS): "Employment increased by 115,000 people in May, following the 31,000 ...

Chief economist update: Anchoring the recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
"We have to take the economy through the pandemic and into a recovery phase, which has now started. We need to really anchor the recovery. We always talk about inflation anchoring and we are not oblivious to that. But the recovery needs to be firm ...

LIC restructures to ETMF

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
In a very rare move, a listed investment company has restructured to become an exchange traded managed fund - listing on the ASX today. The Monash Absolute Investment Company (MA1) has been restructured to become the Monash Absolute Active Trust (MAAT ...

Hostplus holds on to MySuper top spot

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2021
Hostplus remained the best performing single-strategy MySuper option in the year ending April, as superannuation's rebound continued. The Rainmaker MySuper Index returned 18.7% in the 12 months to April. The month's returns were 70bps lower ...

Chief economist update: Australia on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021
... surged to a record high reading of 26 in April from the already above long-term average readings of 17 in March and 19 in February (long-term average is 6). Note that the survey was taken after reports of delays in Australia's vaccine roll-outs and ...

BlackRock wins monumental mandate

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021
In what is reportedly one of the biggest transfers of retirement savings to date, BlackRock has won the first external investment mandate for two of the largest defined benefit schemes in the UK. BlackRock will be the outsourced chief investment officer ...

How noise impacts trading performance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2021
Did trading desks perform better or worse when they were forced to work from home last year? That is the question UNSW Business school researchers sought to answer. A study by UNSW Business School associate professors Elise Payzan-LeNestour and James ...

Chief economist update: RBA cash rate on ice until 2024

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2021
Except to reinforce its message that interest rates will remain at record lows "until 2024 at the earliest", the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) June board meeting was largely a ho-hum affair. As expected, the RBA left monetary policy settings ...

Global Merces MD cops ASIC ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
The corporate regulator has banned Holly Grofski, the managing director of Global Merces Funds Management, from working in financial services for six months. ASIC's banning order is in addition to the criminal charges Grofski is facing, which alleges ...