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Australian retirement system given B+

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2022
... Pension Index, ranking sixth overall for the second consecutive year. The index covers 44 retirement systems around the world, measuring them on adequacy, sustainability, and integrity. Iceland, Netherlands, and Denmark received the top marks, followed ...

PwC appoints chief economist for Australia

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2022
... for Financial Studies, and senior executive and economist at ANZ. Earlier, she delivered consultancy assignments to the World Bank and Asia Development, also working for JPMorgan Chase and Merrill Lynch. During her career, Auster has published numerous ...

No escaping volatility: AMP

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2022
... tend to be negatively impacted when yields go up. That's exactly what we've seen this year, bond yields around the world, particularly in the US have gone up quite a lot," Mousina commented. "For the short term, you should expect that there could ...

Rising number of active funds underperforming: SPIVA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2022
... "The first half of 2022 was characterised by broad based declined in both equities and fixed income securities around the world, including Australia," it said. "There have been times and places when the easiest way to generate outperformance was by getting ...

APRA aims to bolster financial crisis response

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2022
... superannuation members," he explained. "Although Australia has one of the strongest and most stable financial systems in the world, and failures are extremely rare, businesses in any competitive market can face financial difficulties. Should that happen ...

A strong super system cushions the economy: ISA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2022
... called the pool of national savings created by the super system a key strength of the Australian economy and the envy of the world. According to the report, in periods of economic uncertainty and market volatility, the long-term focus of industry funds ...

Crypto asset reforms underway: Treasurer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2022
... claimed 25% of all Australians owned cryptocurrency, nationally one of the highest levels of crypto ownership in the developed world. As it stands, the crypto sector is largely unregulated, and the government has said it needs to work on getting the ...

Norwegian wealth fund records $250bn loss

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022
... almost $250 billion AUD in the first half of this year, largely driven by equity returns, primarily technology stocks. The world's largest sovereign wealth fund reported the record loss as part of its first half results overnight, returning -14.4% for ...

Government strengthens multinationals tax laws

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2022
... multinational taxes from the OECD. At the G20 meetings in Indonesia, one of the topics of conversation was about how the world can work together on the two pillars of the OECD agenda and make sure that we fix this problem in the global economy and certainly ...

BetaShares launches Metaverse ETF

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2022
... will form part of our leading suite of thematic funds that offer investors exposure to the megatrends that are changing the world around us." BetaShares said market analysts have predicted the growing commercial opportunity associated with the Metaverse ...