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LGIAsuper reduces fees, adds indexed option

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2022
As it prepares to expand its menu, LGIAsuper has reduced fees across most of its investment options, including by more than 30% for MySuper members. Effective March 31, the total of investment and administration fees have been reduced across LGIAsuper's ...

Investors sweat over inflation, interest rates: Survey

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2022
... for the Australian stock market than in previous months, with their outlook largely in lock step with the All Ordinaries Index since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Investment Trends said. "Overall, investors tend to be reactive in their outlook ...

Investor confidence drops in April: State Street

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2022
State Street's investor confidence index has decreased to 92.9, down 6.6 points from March's revised reading of 99.5. The index, which was developed in partnership with FDO Partners, measures investor confidence or risk appetite quantitatively by analysing ...

CPI sees greatest jump since 2000

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2022
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 2.1% in the March quarter and 5.1% annually - the greatest increases since the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax in 2000. The growth, revealed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) yesterday, came ...

Schroders scores $250m private debt mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2022
... fund", covers corporate, real estate and infrastructure debt with the aim of outperforming the Bloomberg AUSBOND Bank Bill index by 4.5%. According to Schroders Australia chief executive Sam Hallinan, institutional investors are increasingly looking ...

Principal Financial Group announces ESG index

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2022
... company has partnered with the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) to launch the Global Financial Inclusion Index. The index and its analysis aim to uncover key drivers shaping financial inclusion and exclusion across governments, employers ...

US stocks crumble after Jerome Powell's hawkish comments

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2022
From its daily peak, the SP500 index fell 2.61% after Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell flagged aggressive rate hikes. At an International Monetary Fund panel discussion, Powell said: "It is appropriate, in my view, to be moving a little more quickly." ...

Salaries soar but uncertainty remains: Recruiter

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2022
... confidence in the candidate market which will become a virtuous circle in its own right." Elsewhere, the E.L. Executive Demand Index said demand for Australian executives rose in March as the market consolidated a range of uncertainties both economic ...

Easter Bunny feels the inflationary pinch

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2022
... management boutique Firetrail Investments has highlighted soaring cocoa commodity prices this Easter break via its chocolate index. Firetrail's global chocolate index has shown that select cocoa related commodities have risen 32% since the start of 2021. ...

Fund inflows drop sharply: Calastone

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2022
... have found that Australians' investment appetite has cooled markedly in the first quarter of 2022. The quarterly fund flow index from Calastone found that after record inflows to managed equity funds in 2021, the value of new cash investors committed ...