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CEFC makes first foray into industrial investments

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation has made its first foray into the industrial property sector, investing $50 million in one of Australia's largest industrial and logistics funds. Charter Hall's $5.5 billion Prime Industrial Fund has nabbed the government ...

ASIC puts investment managers on notice over valuations

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2020
The corporate regulator is ramping up its focus on reviewing valuation practices amongst investment managers to ensure they are reliable during the pandemic. ASIC's Interim Corporate Plan 2020/21 is reminding entities to ensure that the valuations of ...

Banks ordered to reduce dividend payout ratios

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
Banks and insurers have been asked to retain at least half of their earnings while deciding dividends until December, after APRA issued revised guidelines. The prudential regulator in April asked banks and insurers to consider deferring dividend decisions ...

AustralianSuper partners with greenhouse gas giants

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
Australia's largest superannuation fund has partnered with the country's major greenhouse gas emitters in a new initiative which will see them work towards a decarbonised future. AustralianSuper, joined by NAB and Schneider Electric, has partnered ...

Chief economist update: Second wave comes to Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
Getting bitten by the love bug may be lovelier the second time around but definitely not if it's a second bite from the coronavirus. Australia is currently in the midst of it. Now the second wave looks like it's come to Japan. According to Kyodo ...

Top equities managers revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
Former Ausbil microcap managers Tony Waters and Chris Prunty have come out on top of Mercer's Australian Shares Investment Manager Performance ranking, after their QVG Capital Long Short fund returned 29.3% for the year. Hyperion Australian Growth and ...

Growth outplays value: Frontier

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
Growth continued to outperform value according to a new study by Frontier Advisers looking at the performance of fund managers in the final quarter of 20109/20. In a note released to its clients, Frontier reported that growth-focused managers outstripped ...

Industry super accused of misleading consumers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
Liberal MP Jason Falinski has accused industry super funds of using the Google AdWords term 'retail super' after BT was fined for using the term 'industry super'. The subject arose as Falinski questioned ASIC during the Senate Parliamentary ...

Chief economist update: BOJ takes breather on stimulus sprint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) took a breather in July, keeping its monetary policy settings and asset purchases unchanged, promising that: "For the time being, the Bank will closely monitor the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and will not hesitate ...

Banks brace for major loan losses

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
Three of the United States' biggest banks have set aside approximately $40 billion (US$28 billion) to brace for COVID-19 related loan losses, as Wells Fargo posts its first quarterly loss since the Global Financial Crisis. Citigroup saw its net income ...