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Robo-advice a complement, not disruptor: Six Park

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
... active Australian investors had taken up robo-advice in 2019, which Six Park puts down to awareness. "Meanwhile, the pandemic has triggered an increased interest in investing amongst Australians and the lockdown has made digital interaction and service ...

Worst investment ideas revealed: ARK

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020
... services at an accelerating rate during the last few years. Without sports, the pace of cord cutting intensified during the pandemic," ARK said. Freight rail, perhaps surprisingly, also made ARK's list of bad ideas. The researchers think that autonomous ...

Chief economist update: Good or bad news is good Wall Street news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020
... unconvinced. Fed chair Jerome Powell thinks there's still a long way to go before the economy fully recovers from the pandemic. Fed governor Brainard believes the US recovery remains uncertain and uneven. Good news or bad news - which would prompt ...

APRA reduces ERS reporting for funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... Release of Super reporting standards. From September 30, APRA said it will only require sections 6-8 of SRF 91.1: COVID-19 Pandemic Data Collection to be reported on a monthly basis through to 31 January 2021. This means APRA will be putting a greater ...

Future Fund posts modest growth

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... $102 billion for the Commonwealth government. "In an exceptionally challenging environment brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic the Future Fund has performed strongly," Costello said. "In the March quarter, global stock markets fell dramatically and the ...

Super needs improvement: Report card

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... the household saving and reducing the level of household debt, are other areas of improvement. The onset of the global pandemic has several immediate effects, leading to significant devaluation of asset values in the first quarter of 2020. The pandemic ...

ClearView seeks to raise at least $40m

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... ClearView said the results reflect tough market conditions brought on by the economic shutdown as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The decline in profitability was driven by poor underlying claims performance in its life insurance segment, reflecting ...

Chief economist update: Japan's second wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... for a handover given the significantly weakened state of the global and domestic economies flattened by the coronavirus pandemic but it could have been worse for Suga. The new Japanese prime minister was off to a relatively better start for around the ...

Chief economist update: Middle Kingdom on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... prove that the Politburo's draconian restriction and lockdown measures implemented at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic worked. While every other government around the world remain in the midst of their seemingly Sisyphusian efforts to contain ...

Australian Business Growth Fund launches

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... ensure small and medium-sized businesses have access to equity finance during the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The government is making an investment of $100 million and partnering with other financial institutions to provide equity ...