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Portfolio insurance provides strong protection: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020
Australians need to consider more sustainable income flows as a future investment objective or risk not having adequate retirement savings, according to research from the Centre for Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR). CEPAR senior research ...

Chief economist update: China's post-pandemic economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2020
"I guess it also rings a bell for some countries, which are still struggling to fight COVID-19, that without strict measures, the virus won't be fended off. We fought hard, this is our payback." Zhang Yong, a small taxi company owner in Wuhan, is ...

Citi names global chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
Citi has appointed Jane Fraser to the role of chief executive as the incumbent retires after nearly four decades with the firm. Michael Corbat has been at the helm for the last eight years and will step down from official duties in February of 2021. ...

Former analyst gets three year sentence

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
A former investment analyst from Maple-Brown Abbott was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, after pleading guilty to insider trading in Big Un shares. Michael Ming Jinn Ho will serve the three years via an intensive correction order (aka a sentence ...

High performance funds significantly underperform: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
New research from Rainmaker Information has found that high performance Australian equity funds significantly underperformed their benchmark over the three years to June 2020. The median high performance fund underperformed its benchmark by 300 basis ...

FASEA adds exam sittings, approved subjects

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
FASEA has confirmed it will run six financial adviser exam sittings in 2021 at 31 locations across Australia, subject to COVID-19 restrictions. FASEA will hold exams from January 28 to February 2, March 25-30, May 20-25, July 15-20, September 9-14 and ...

Financial Standard launches FS Sustainability

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
Financial services ESG publication The Sustainability Report has been relaunched as FS Sustainability today. FS Sustainability will aim to provide expert analysis and in-depth news on a variety of ESG issues and how ESG factors are integrated into investment ...

Robinhood effect steers share market

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020
The perfect storm of government stimulus and a new breed of retail traders with little investing know-how are resuscitating the share market, but for how long? According to Julia Lee, founder and chief investment officer of Burman Invest, numerous factors ...

ASIC relaxes IPO red tape

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
ASIC has loosened the red tape for companies undertaking an initial public offering with the issuance of regulatory relief. Following a public consultation in February 2020, the corporate regulator has amended the legislation to grant relief for voluntary ...

Chief economist update: Communists' party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2020
"There's a party goin' on right here A celebration to last throughout the years So bring your good times and your laughter too We gonna celebrate your party with you..." - Kool & the Gang The post-pandemic pool party at Wuhan Maya Beach Water ...