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Chief economist update: Tomorrow never dies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 APR 2021
"Don't stop thinking about tomorrow Don't stop, it'll soon be here It'll be better than before Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone..." -Fleetwood Mac Wall Street rebounded big time the day after markets were buffeted by headlines ...

Institutional mandates shrink

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
Local institutional investors appointed 313 mandates totaling $43 billion in 2020, down from $51 billion the year before, according to Rainmaker's latest Mandate Chaser report. State Street was the biggest winner in institutional mandates in 2020 ...

Super top ups increase: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021
... superannuation per month, it marks a growing number of members who are thinking more about their retirement balances, a new survey found. Finder's March 2021 survey of 1015 consumers (717 of them were superannuation members), also found that only 14% ...

ERS spending revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has revealed what people who accessed their super early due to financial hardship caused by COVID-19 spent the money on. The ABS found that 29% of people who accessed their super in the early release of super program ...

Pandemic spurs advice, insurance rethink

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
... leaving their adviser has jumped from 30% to 38%. MetLife chief retail insurance officer Meray El-Khoury said this year's survey recorded a 15% increase in advisers receiving an excellent rating following a review. "Now is the time for advisers to ...

Afterpay reveals US plans, economic impact

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
... Afterpay's service to merchants. Even if the benefits are potentially a little overstated (they are based on extrapolation of survey responses and it's an Afterpay commissioned report), they are very material to merchants." Following the results ...

Rest launches low-cost SRI option

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... surveyed a random sample of members back in December 2020 to better align the investment option with their values. The survey was sent to 647,218 members, with the fund receiving 7311 responses - over 75% of which expressed a moderate to strong interest ...

Value managers fight back: Mercer

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... Australian equities performance shows. In the year to March 2021, the Australian Shares Investment Manager Performance Survey revealed the top five funds that delivered above-median returns are Allan Gray Australian Equity, Ausbil Australian Active Equity ...

Chief economist update: Australians all let us rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2021
... Australian arm was inoculated with the vaccine. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) latest 'Labour Force' survey indicate that this circle of virtue is gaining momentum. Here are the key stats of the seasonally adjusted estimates for ...

Chief economist update: Australia's confidence contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2021
... economy. The recovery will receive extra impetus if the latest confidence surveys are anything to go by. The NAB business survey showed that it's no worries for businesses (despite the government withdrawing its JobKeeker programme at the end of ...