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Chief economist update: The Budget surplus can wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2019
"Anything that could go wrong will go wrong." - Murphy's law. It seems like it for us, Australians all. The latest (although dated) GDP growth figures showed that domestic economic growth slowed to its slowest pace in a decade (in the midst of the ...

Advisers wary of ethical funds, launch own rating system

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2019
... rating system. The Ethical Advisers Co-op is launching its own rating system for ethical funds, awarding funds up to five green leaves based on their levels of ethics - however, no fund has achieved a perfect five leaf rating. Future Super, Australian ...

Macquarie, Aberdeen Standard team up for Thames tunnel

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
A consortium of global infrastructure heavyweights including Macquarie Capital and Aberdeen Standard Investments will build a £1 billion tunnel under the River Thames. The RiverLinx consortium has been selected by Transport for London (TfL) to design ...

British MPs prod own pension fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
... conservative MP who sits on the board of trustees for the parliamentary pension scheme said the trustees had met with advisers and green asset managers but faced many challenges. "The most innovative green energy projects in the UK, particularly those ...

Super fund achieves first carbon neutral portfolio

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2019
... committed to meeting sustainability goals for some time. In 2017, Local Government Super achieved a separate five star "green" rating for its direct property portfolio - it was also the first property portfolio to achieve that rating in Australia. "Local ...

Chief economist update: Currency manipulators beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
As if the world hasn't had enough of the overhanging pall engendered by lingering trade tensions, US President Trump is about to raise the stakes and expand the scope to currency manipulators. This I learned from The New York Times (NYT) on May ...

Chief economist update: Japan becomes collateral damage in US-China trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
In any war, there's bound to be those that are caught in the crossfire and others treated as collateral damage. The global stock market rout that developed as a result of the renewed "little squabble" (as Trump recently put it) between the US and ...

Chief economist update: The (trade) war is back on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2019
... billion. As expected, China promised to take "necessary counter measures". The trade war is back on and could kill off the green shoots that have recently been sprouting in the Chinese economy. Both the National Bureau of Statistics' (official) and ...

Healthcare property a buy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2019
Healthcare property is likely to continue to deliver strong returns for investors, despite current challenges in the asset class, according to Australian Unity. Australian Unity head of healthcare property Chris Smith said healthcare property should ...

ESG enthusiasm booms post-Royal Commission

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
The Royal Commission may have pushed some businesses to prioritise environmental and ethical social governance (ESG), according to Perennial portfolio manager Damian Cottier. Perennial surveyed a series of listed companies, asking about their ESG priorities ...