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The next big short

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... themselves." CDOs and subprime mortgage securities, in comparison, didn't have great characteristics individually, but when combined together, their value and risk characteristics changed, Reyes explained. "Passive investing doesn't attempt to ...

Ethical fund manager wears $520m hit

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... 31 with $3.59 billion in funds under management across its superannuation and managed fund offerings, after taking a combined hit of $520 million thanks to the economic impact of COVID-19 on investment markets. Australian Ethical said most of the hit ...

AMP Capital shutters global equities fund for platform investors

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... by the fund's responsible entity, National Mutual Funds Management Limited. "A reduction in the fund's size over time combined with certain fixed costs associated with operating the fund will have the result of increasing management costs for investors ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... 2020 and 2021 from the pandemic crisis could be around US$9 trillion, greater than the economies of Japan and Germany, combined," Gopinath said. "For the first time since the Great Depression both advanced economies and emerging market and developing ...

APRA-regulated fund or SMSF: It's all the same

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... aggregate level SMSFs as a segment probably fell around 14% in March, slightly more than the average 11% fall in MySuper. "Combined with ASX companies squeezing their dividends this could really put the squeeze of SMSFs to pay retirement income," Dunnin ...

Worse than the Great Depression: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... 2020 and 2021 from the pandemic crisis could be around US$9 trillion, greater than the economies of Japan and Germany, combined," Gopinath said. "For the first time since the Great Depression both advanced economies and emerging market and developing ...

COVID-19 damage to stretch several quarters: Natixis IM

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... compellingly cheap given the damage that is coming in earnings. Today, at almost 19x forward earnings, the equity rally combined with further earnings deterioration have already returned index valuations to nosebleed levels only surpassed in the late ...

COVID-19 to push life premiums up: Rice Warner

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... profit margin figures - released pre-COVID-19 - show insurers and reinsurers are bleeding worse than ever before, with a combined after-tax loss of $1.3 billion reported in the 12 months to December 2019 for risk products. "COVID-19 will deliver a further ...

The catalysts for a rebound

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
... be policy responses. "Governments are ramping up large-scale social distancing, testing and health care infrastructure combined with economic relief," it said. Cirami added that the investment manager has seen some assets in Brazil and Mexico continue ...

CBA appoints chief economist

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
... CBA moves to trim its research team. "The role of chief economist and head of global economic & markets research were combined as part of a decision to streamline the global economic & markets research team," a CBA spokesperson said. In the chief economist ...