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ANZ profits halve, dividend deferred

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... to lead the group's strategic use of data. Gray has previously worked for Woolworths and across the United States, Europe and Australia for Bain & Company. The appointment is effective May 1, reporting to group executive, digital and Australia transformation ...

Aussie funds bleed $4bn in March

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... funds while UK investors pulled out about $7.3 billion. "Flows were mostly from bond funds, as was the case in Asia and Europe where political uncertainty produced more volatility throughout 2019 relative to Australia," the company said. "While many ...

ESG performing positively: MSCI

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... the hardest hit regions, MSCI said. "Within global markets, EM saw a stronger decline during Q1 2020 than DM. Within DM, Europe was hit hardest in terms of index drawdowns," it said. "In addition, a number of regional and sub-regional ESG indexes outperformed ...

BlackRock turns optimistic on credit

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... functioning," Boivin said. "We stay underweight on European equities. We see greater upside elsewhere in an eventual recovery. Europe is more dependent on foreign trade." Japan equities are underweight (limited fiscal and monetary policy room for its ...

Best, worst global equities funds in March quarter

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... Return fell 26.72%, global stock market indices were down between 6.26% (MSCI AC Asia Ex Japan NR AUD) and 13.09% (MSCI Europe NR AUD). Consequently, all global equities funds analysed posted negative returns for the quarter but returns ranged from -0.58% ...

COVID-19 to lead to deglobalisation: Amundi

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... counterparts, Amundi said. "After the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in China and East Asia, and the second wave in Western Europe and North America, a third wave now looks to be building in several EM and frontier countries," it said. "EM and frontier ...

Australia versus the world

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... public debt. "The RBA has been fairly cautious in its embrace of 'unconventional' measures," he said. "The US and Europe face much larger challenges with public debt burdens and 'moral hazard' issues associated with Fed and ECB 'unconventional' ...

COVID-19 is not the only factor: deVere

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... will get an insight this week into how heavy a hammer-blow coronavirus has delivered to corporate America and corporate Europe in the first three months of the year," Green said. "Almost inevitably, the results will trigger widespread downward revisions." ...

COVID-19 damage to stretch several quarters: Natixis IM

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... removed much of the panic and stabilised credit spreads, but this remains the greatest string-pushing exercise in history." Europe in comparison will disproportionately suffer, he argued. "In Europe, policymakers continue to squabble over risk sharing ...

What's next for income-focused funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
As ASX-listed companies wind back dividends, income-focused equities funds will have to look harder for sources of income. Australian companies paid out about $55.5 billion in dividends last year, according to Janus Henderson. On average, between 1917 ...