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FSC calls for SMSF access to infrastructure

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
... investors who have limited access to them. "After steering Australia successfully through our most serious health crisis in a century, the National Cabinet faces the daunting challenge of creating jobs and getting Australia back to work - the financial ...

Banks urged to step up

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... to be used, now is that time," Lowe said. "We should not expect to see capital buffers be maintained during a once in a century shock. These buffers have been built up to be used in an event such as this." The RBA governor said a reduction in a capital ...

Proceed with caution: Janus Henderson

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2020
... savings after having had their finances severely stretched," Alankar said. "As John Maynard Keynes reflected nearly a century ago, household savings may be beneficial to the individual, but bad for aggregate economic growth. This has dire consequences ...

Chief economist update: Turns out Brexit was heaven

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... Vlieghe warns, the UK is in for "an economic contraction that is faster and deeper than anything we have seen in the past century, or possibly several centuries".

ASX suffers worst quarter in over a century

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2020
... open today. Both the S&P/ASX 200 and the S&P/NZX 50 portfolio completed their worst monthly and quarterly declines this century, sliding 21% and 17% respectively in March, according to the S&P Dow Jones Indices quarterly report. "While there have been ...

Super funds' dirty, poor performing stocks revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2020
... Washington H Soul Pattinson, Mineral Resources, Whitehaven Coal, New Hope, Cooper Energy, Karoon, Canarvon, Senex, FAR and New Century Resources are the stocks in question. These companies, Market Forces says, are expanding the scale of the fossil fuel ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 eating into jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
... in the week ended March 14. Still peanuts when you consider that the current US unemployment rate remains at a half a century low of 3.5%. However, the US Economic Policy Institute's (EPI) latest estimates provide a guide of things to come. EPI estimates ...

Fidelity sweeps Morningstar Australia Awards

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2020
... not a winner) was global equities. Franklin Global Growth beat VanEck Vector's QUAL and Zurich Global Growth (American Century Investments) for fund manager of the year in global equities. No win for Magellan this year Magellan was a finalist in the ...

Trustee firm expands into fund administration

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2019
... said the move illustrates the firm's mission to remove inefficiencies from super and bring the industry into the 21st century. "While Australia's superannuation system is a great success story, its annual cost base is well in excess of $30 billion," ...

State Super to sponsor retirement income research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2019
... Library in Sydney last night, State Super announced the State Super Scholarship as a legacy to acknowledge the fund's century of operation. Launched by NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet, the scholarship will fund four honours or masters students and one ...