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UniSuper makes investment changes for High Growth option

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2026
... has diverted concentration towards cash and fixed interest, allocating a 5% holding into cash and fixed interest from the zero-exposure prior. The High Growth option has also reduced holdings in Australian (40% to 38%) and international shares (52% to ...

Index investing of greater benefit: Vanguard

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022
... recent research paper, Vanguard outlined the benefits of index investing over the long term, a rationale grounded in the zero-sum game theory, the effect of costs, and the difficulty of finding persistent outperformance among active managers. The report ...

Mantis adds Zerocap crypto fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2022
In its latest distribution partnership, Mantis Funds has added Zerocap's crypto fund strategies to its platform. Zerocap is a specialist crypto manager, its flagship fund is the Smart Beta Bitcoin Fund, and this is its first distribution partnership ...

ANZ becomes first Australian bank to develop stablecoin

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2022
ANZ has made history with the first ever Australian bank-issued stablecoin payment, pegged to the Australian dollar, through a public permissionless blockchain transaction. The stablecoin transaction was successfully completed for Victor Smorgon Group ...

Sustainability will send some broke: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2021
... robotics gave corporations an advantage over labor. "But in the last business cycle, where policymakers lowered rates to the zero-bound to promote hiring, chief financial officers opted for buybacks instead, culminating in the widest levels of income ...

Family office makes crypto play

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2021
The Smorgon family office has taken a stake in a cryptocurrency investment platform. The Victor Smorgon Group (VSG) has taken an equity stake in crypto asset investment platform Zerocap. Zerocap has plans to be a significant full service advisory and ...

Zero rates causing risky business: Pengana

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
... analyst Ryan Fisher said near zero-interest rates is perpetuating the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. "The zero-interest rate policy was absolutely the appropriate thing for central banks to do in the wake of COVID-19, but it has unintended ...

Calls for super release to borrow from RBA

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
... as repurchase agreements or repos)," he said. "These specific repos would need to be at a zero interest rate, to match the zero interest rate being paid by members." Davis, who is also a board member of Superannuation Consumers Australia, argued a zero ...

Chief economist update: US recession on the cards

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2019
... record low of 0.75% (with markets expecting another one before 2019 is over - that practically drove investors away from the zero yield on offer on savings account and into the higher yielding stock market. As a result, the S&P/ASX 200 index rallied ...

Chief economist update: Future path of fed funds rate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
... his war on trade. With one stroke of his pen or a flip of his toupee, he could up the ante on tariffs, ensuring he gets the zero (even negative) interest rates - plus QE - he's been bugging Powell to implement.
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