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Challenger raising $300m, to add IG bonds

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
... the capital backing these investments," Challenger managing director and chief executive Richard Howes said. "This is well above our pre-tax ROE target of the RBA cash rate plus a margin of 14%. Importantly, we can capture these opportunities, while ...

How competitive is the Australian ETF industry?

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... competitiveness, on all broad-based measures including ETF managers' share by total assets as well as revenue. A score of 2500 and above on the HHI indicates a high-concentration market, followed by moderate concentration for a score of 1500-2500 ...

We cannot prevent the blow: PM

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
... get back to the level we were at pre COVID-19. "We need to lift our economic growth rate by more than one percentage point above trend to beat the expected pre-COVID-19 GDP by 2025, to catch back up to where we were before COVID hit," Morrison said. ...

UBS Australia launches new CBRE fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
... infrastructure and 45% in real estate. The fees are 1.2% per year in base fee and a performance fee of 20% on the performance above a hurdle of RBA cash rate plus 5% after fees. The fund will be priced daily but have monthly application/redemption windows. ...

Fed buys up BlackRock ETFs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
... somewhat higher on net," the Fed said. "Corporate bond spreads at the end of the intermeeting period still stood significantly above their levels in January." The US central bank chair Jerome Powell said the Fed took action with the Treasury Department ...

Global manager rolls out local access to alternatives fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
... performance fee of 20% of the amount of outperformance of the current day net asset value relative to the prior day NAV above the Bloomberg AusBond Bank Bill Index after management fees, and subject to a high watermark. Currently run as a hedge fund ...

Impact investing set to skyrocket: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... their current impact investments, and 92% said the same for their financial expectations. About 76% expect competitive or above market rates of return. About 90% of investors believe impact investing will grow in significance, with measurable impact ...

Gold holding onto Fibonacci resistance: Daily FX

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... in the yellow metal since the market topped in 2011." Stanley said the RSI reading on the monthly gold chart is currently above the 75.00 level - something that's only happened three previous times over the past 20 years. "The previous example was around ...

Chief economist update: What to expect when you're expecting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... followed by a bounce-back of 6% next year." "...the unemployment rate peaks at around 10% over coming months and is still above 7% at the end of next year." "Inflation remains below 2% over the next few years... expected to turn negative temporarily ...

Super withdrawals being misused

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2020
... designed to support people in financial hardship. On average, people withdrew $8000 and spent an extra $2855 in two weeks above their usual fortnightly spending. Bligh suggested there was a group of people "living very large" on their super payments. ...