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Liquid and ready: Cbus

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
Cbus chief executive David Atkin says his $56 billion industry super fund is in a strong liquidity position to deal with the early super release scheme. And this was the case even prior to the government's Jobseeker payment announcement, he said. "Cbus ...

COVID-19 damage to stretch several quarters: Natixis IM

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... Despite global market rebounds, Natixis Investment Managers believes the economic damage of the COVID-19 pandemic will stretch several quarters beyond the containment of the virus. There are now nearly two million confirmed cases of the coronavirus around ...

Super fighting a war on three fronts: KPMG

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
Australia's superannuation sector is fighting a war on three different fronts, as the economic fallout of COVID-19 continues to bite. New analysis from KPMG shows superannuation trustees are facing three competing sets of problems as they deal with ...

Dow skyrockets in two-day winning streak

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has posted second day of gains, rising 2.4% after witnessing its best one-day percentage gain since the Great Depression on Tuesday. "Turnaround Tuesday" saw the bourse surging 11.4% or 2112.98 points during trading ...

Frontier warns super fund clients of recession

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
... slowdown] rather than a hard number." Frontier's modelling says there is a risk of 317,000 job losses if COVID-19 shocks stretch out through the year because the unemployment rate could rise about 2.5% above the baseline. The slowdown may dwarf the ...

Volatility hits super funds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2020
... members who are close to retirement should consider that their investment horizon might be quite long, pointing out it could stretch from anywhere between 20 to 30 years. As such, he said investors should remember that a diversified superannuation investment ...

Panic selling to do more damage: Ord Minnett

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
Panic selling, which is taking global markets by storm, is likely to do more damage as it spreads across asset classes, according to latest Ord Minnett research. "Market volatility inevitably reverberated into the listed hybrids market, with the asset ...

Equities not that expensive: Hamish Douglass

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
US stocks are not expensive, despite their stretched valuations. In fact, it's all just a matter of "gravity" or the historically low interest rate environment, according to Magellan's Hamish Douglass. Speaking to a near-full crowd at the firm's ...

Remain liquid, defensive and patient: Schroders

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
While the market focus has moved on from the woes of 2019, investors in 2020 and facing similar global risks, according to Mihkel Kase, portfolio manager - fixed income at Schroders. Kase said the concerns investors faced in 2019 - think trade war and ...

The sick short: Banking big on the coronavirus

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
... globe are being affected," Conway said. "Given the amount of parts Apple sources from suppliers in China, it's not a stretch to think that they would have been affected." Dawes said Shaw and Partners had been playing ASX-listed Aeris Environmental ...