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HESTA awards tech mandate

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021
The $56 billion industry fund has appointed a cloud investment platform to support its in-house portfolio management. The super fund selected SimCorp's Dimension as a Service to consolidate its investment data into one central location including ...

Careful portfolio rebalances needed: First Sentier

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021
... the expectation that central banks will retain their loose monetary policy for the foreseeable future. This in itself may spark investors to pause and revisit their assumptions regarding the high performing asset classes of 2020." Somaia added that while ...

COVID-19 lockdown swells financial stress

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
New research reveals there is high correlation with COVID impacted industries and early super release applicants. AMP's latest research on financial stress found the two of industries most impacted by COVID-19, hospitality and retail, have the most ...

Chief economist update: David Australia versus Goliath China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept monetary policy unchanged at its December board meeting - the last of 2020 - and for good reason. "In Australia, the economic recovery is under way and recent data have generally been better than expected... ...

Give the people advisers: Retirement Income Review

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
The first comprehensive review of Australia's retirement system has acknowledged that affordable financial advice is what people need to navigate the retirement system. After the Royal Commission exposed deep flaws in Australia's financial advice ...

Chief economist update: Vaccine optimism sparks AUD resurgence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
The Australian dollar is back! Back above the US$0.73 level that is. The Australian currency rose to around this level back in late-August/early-September after the US Federal Reserve announced a shift into a lower for longer strategy - suggesting that ...

Chief economist update: Japan's third wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
More infections equals more monetary policy easing and more fiscal spending. Like the Fed and the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) also kept monetary policy unchanged - target rate at -0.1% and target for the 10-year Japanese government ...

Bell Direct hires for new service

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
Bell Direct has appointed two former CommSec executives to its new service catering to its increasing number of high value clients. Ryan Phillips has joined Bell Direct Advantage from his role as executive manager broking and Markets at CommSec. As ...

Chief economist update: The UK's new plan... after two plans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
Multiplying rates of coronavirus infections forced the UK government to impose strict lockdown measures, giving "bobbies" power to fine people leaving their homes for "non-essential" reasons on March 23. These restrictions were then gradually eased ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020
It may have gone up and down and round and round but the US equity market has trended higher and higher and is outperforming its peers. Despite topping the list of total cases of coronavirus infections (8.6 million), new cases (0.6 million) and deaths ...