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Hostplus enhances ESG option

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2021
Hostplus is changing its sustainable investment option on the back of growing demand from members who want a more sustainable and principled approach to their investments. The Socially Responsible Investment Balanced option (SRI) now excludes a broader ...

Frontier on hiring spree

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021
Frontier has flagged hiring appetite for senior consultant and research roles, as it announces eight new additions including a senior consultant from CitiBank. Jill Guan has joined Frontier as a senior consultant specialising in debt and currency. She ...

Local managed funds fee revenues shrinks

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2021
Wholesale managed funds reaped $4.5 billion in fee revenue in 2020 but average fees were down 6bps, according to new Rainmaker research. Rainmaker analysed more than 1000 managed funds which had $588 billion in total assets. The average fee wholesale ...

CBA slashes profits, boosts dividends

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2021
Commonwealth Bank has rewarded shareholders with a generous dividend payout despite its latest results falling short of expectations. December 2020 half-year results show the bank's net-profit after tax dipped 21% to $4.9 billion on the prior corresponding ...

Chief economist update: Nikkei not so fine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2021
"Oh Nikkei, you're so fine You're so fine you blow my mind, hey Nikkei..." My apologies to Toni Basil for re-wording the lyrics to her 1981 hit "Mickey", but anyone watching the rise and rise of the Nikkei-225 index will understand. The Japanese ...

Chief economist update: The US inflation dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2021
"Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards." - Shane Patton Did current US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (under Biden's administration) just call former US Secretary Lawrence Summers (under Clinton's) a coward? I refer of ...

Chief economist update: Disappointing jobs results raise Biden's stimulus bid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021
... and push the unemployment rate to 4% or below by year end." And then there's the Fed. In his post-26-27 FOMC meeting press conference, chair Jerome Powell tried to calm markets and prevent a repeat of the taper tantrum that sent bond yields up and ...

Lifecycle products cost members: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2021
New Rainmaker research has found being a member of a typical lifecycle MySuper product could reduce a person's retirement savings by up to 23% by age 70. The research found that if a member were to stay in a typical lifecycle MySuper product for their ...

Super funds bow to divestment pressure

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021
A new report has revealed the number of companies Australia's largest super funds have rapidly divested amid pressure to invest with climate change in mind. Nine of the 40 largest super funds in Australia have now announced divestment from some of the ...

High Court dismisses Westpac appeal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2021
... campaign aimed at rolling customers into Westpac products under the banner of general advice," ASIC commissioner Danielle Press said. "By clarifying the distinction between tailored, quality, personal advice in the customer's interest, and general ...