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Life insurance needs to prove value

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
... However, we have found that around 50% of members probably disengaged or not aware of cover," Evans said. In particular, the pandemic has been a catalyst for members to check their life insurance and First State Super has seen an increased appetite for ...

Investment strategies need to change: GSFM

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... Rygel, Munro Partners and Redpoint Investment Management. GSFM said economic uncertainty existed before the COVID-19 pandemic, but investment performance will depend on more than economic fundamentals. Stephen Miller, investment strategist at GSFM, said ...

Aussie investors unhappy with pandemic performance

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... trusts. Performance is optimistic on a global level with 82% of global investors were satisfied with performance during the pandemic. In addition, the vast majority of investors were satisfied with the performance of their risk management processes but ...

Citi adds to markets, custody leadership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
... experience and insight will be welcomed by our clients as they continue to navigate heightened market volatility caused by the pandemic." McKerihan joined Salomon Brothers as a salesperson with responsibility for central banks in non-US dollar markets ...

Chief economist update: Second wave comes to Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
... in its Outlook Report... "Until effective medicines and vaccines are developed, it is highly unclear how the COVID-19 pandemic will evolve and how long it will take for it to subside. In particular, if a second wave of COVID-19 occurs on a large scale ...

New class action regulations slammed

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
... done is not in the interests of ordinary Australians. His hope is that it's all so complicated that in the midst of a pandemic no one will notice."

Super to lose $3tn by 2040

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
... trillion hit was reached after Rainmaker's Superannuation Projection Model compared two strategic scenarios: pre-pandemic growth expectations with post-pandemic expectations. The modelling factors in Australia's recession, rising unemployment ...

Value to be found in childcare stocks

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
The government's ongoing fiscal support to the childcare industry throughout the pandemic has led to an undervaluation of childcare stock prices despite the COVID-19 surge in Victoria, according to latest research from Morningstar. Morningstar equity ...

Netwealth launches Milliman managed accounts

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
... Wade Matterson said when SmartShield was designed; they could not have foreseen that its launch would coincide with the pandemic. "Financial advisers were already facing a raft of challenges, as the industry undergoes significant adjustments and regulatory ...

Government announces $184bn deficit

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
... the Budget with all three major credit ratings agencies having now reaffirmed Australia's AAA credit rating during the pandemic." The economic support in response to COVID-19 is estimated to have increased the level of real GDP by around 0.75% in 2019-20 ...