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New climate risk government bond index launches

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
... climate change's physical effects Resilience - A country's preparedness and action to cope with climate change The single combined score is then used to reweight the country's exposure in the index. Countries better prepared for the risks of climate ...

Sovereign investors go back to fixed income

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
... holdings. "Eighty nine percent of sovereigns anticipate the end of the economic cycle within the next two years. This combined with volatility concerns and the prospect of negative returns from equities has led to increased fixed income allocations and ...

MySuper lacks risk and return correlation: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
... MySuper products, Rainmaker assessed the performance of the products alongside three measures of volatility using its Combined Risk Adjusted Rank. Media Super, Hostplus, Cbus, Sunsuper and Club Plus' MySuper products topped the ranking using this ...

ISA condemned by union

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... Australia's energy trilemma right now. There is no reason to exclude any of the major technological contenders - solar, wind, combined-cycle gas, pumped and even nuclear - from the current or future energy mix." As for why ISA released the report ...

Chief economist update: The turn in Australia's cycle from vicious to virtuous

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... government during the depths of the global financial crisis in February 2009." "On that occasion, cheques of $950, worth a combined $8.1 billion, were mailed out over a short period of time, boosting the struggling retail sector which reported a 2.6% ...

Xplore Wealth launches new solution

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... more new products in the same vein as Xplore Wrap. "Increased transparency in the investment decision-making process, combined with Xplore's deep industry experience and administrative track record had enabled us to deliver the first of several planned ...

Industry funds consider $22bn merger

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019
... chair John Brumby said this is an exciting opportunity to create one fund that would provide services nationally to the combined membership, with priority on providing quality services and outcomes for members. "We anticipate that the increased scale ...

Industry funds could solve energy crisis: ISA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
... Australia's energy trilemma right now. There is no reason to exclude any of the major technological contenders - solar, wind, combined-cycle gas, pumped and even nuclear - from the current or future energy mix," he said. "The existing fleet of baseload ...

FPA, AFA partner on life insurance

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019
... appoint two senior representatives and two adviser members each to the eight-person taskforce, with the goal of taking a combined approach to the future of life insurance. AFA chief executive Phillip Kewin said the aim is to create greater understanding ...

Superannuation fund tweaks fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
... effective July 1, the fixed administration fee will decrease to $1.25 per week from $1.75 per week ($91 per annum). The combined investment fee and indirect cost ratio for all mixed asset class options will reduce between 0.02% and 0.15%. The ethical ...