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Chief economist update: The crash we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
Is this the stock market crash we have to have? The great reboot from the overvaluation in stock market prices prompted by cheap interest rates that punished savers and drove investors to go look where their capital could get higher returns? The global ...

EM debt relatively unscathed by virus: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
New research shows emerging markets debt has been relatively unscathed by the coronavirus so far. But risk still remains. Eaton Vance's (EM) debt team said the positive news has been driven by the expectation that the impact on growth will be temporary ...

Chief economist update: Who's afraid of COVID-19?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
Equity markets appeared to be immune several weeks after COVID-19 first made global headlines - it was known as "novel coronavirus" then - with the S&P 500 index and the S&P/ASX 200 index, among others, even hitting record highs. Even heavily-hit China's ...

Xplore Wealth outlines 2020 plans

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
ASX-listed platform Xplore Wealth has announced a slew of new products and offers, set to launch in 2020. It comes as the platform provider releases its results for the 1H2020 financial year. Xplore is set to release three new products in 2020, including ...

New super fund targets millennials

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
A newly launched sub-plan of Aracon Super has officially launched, marketed to millennials with a PDS revealing relatively high fees, expensive insurance and big ambitions. Elevate Super launched today, after Financial Standard revealed its plans last ...

New super fund to launch

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
A new superannuation fund is set to launch next week focused on sustainable investing. Elevate Super will launch on Wednesday next week, a spokesperson confirmed to Financial Standard. Elevate is a sub-plan of Aracon Superannuation, a subsidiary of ...

J.P. Morgan wins custody mandate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
J.P. Morgan has won a mandate to provide custodial services to an ASX-listed platform and superannuation provider.In a quarterly business update, Xplore Wealth revealed it has a new custodial agreement contract with J.P. Morgan. Xplore said the new ...

Double exit from investment firm

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
An investment firm which manages over a billion dollars has announced a double exit, as its joint chief executives step down. Catherine van der Veen and Lucy Foster will be stepping down from their roles as joint chief executives and managing directors ...

Platform ends year with hiring spree

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
An ASX-listed platform ended 2019 with a raft of new hires, including additions to the board of its superannuation offering. Xplore Wealth appointed Karen Machovsky as project governance and change management head and Durand Oliver as state distribution ...

Chief economist update: The rise and fall of oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
Crude oil prices rose in the early months of the New Year on the escalation of tensions between the US and Iran after an American drone strike in Iraq on January 3 that killed Qassem Soleimani -- the head of Iran's elite Quds military force. The ...