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Family offices embrace crypto: BNY Mellon

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2022
... likely to be actively investing in crypto compared to single family offices, with 64% of multi-family offices investing versus 36% of single family offices. For those who do invest, ETFs and trade exchanges are the preferred vehicles for doing so, while ...

Plato launches net zero fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022
... Only Strategy - has delivered substantial reduction in carbon exposure, reducing intensity 75% and carbon footprint 76% versus the index, while also outperforming it.

Quality of Advice must consider digital: Ignition

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022
... the cost of complying with increased regulation. The review will consider excessive compliance obligations, principles versus rules-based regulation, clarity of disclosure, and undesirable unintended consequences arising from the post Royal Commission ...

MySuper heatmap offers few surprises

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2021
... test has two components: average investment returns (net of investment costs and taxes) for the last eight financial years versus a benchmark, and the administration fees for the last financial year versus a benchmark. If the fund slips below 0.5% when ...

HESTA leads trustee board diversity

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021
Superannuation fund HESTA has the highest number of women on its trustee board with nine females versus five males. An analysis of APRA's fund-level superannuation data as at June 2021 shows the $67 billion fund has tipped the gender imbalance as ...

Gender equality perception differs

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2021
... putting it into practice, new research shows. FINSIA's sixth biennial Gender Divide Survey has revealed the gap in perception versus reality of where the industry currently finds itself. More respondents than previous iterations of the survey had diversity ...

Economic recap: Week to September 24

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2021
... slow to 5.9% in 2021 from the 7.0% it forecast three months earlier, it now expects GDP to expand faster next year (3.8% versus 3.3% predicted three months before) and in 2023 (2.5% versus 2.4%). Similarly, the Fed predicts the unemployment rate to be ...

Australian Ethical overhauls longstanding fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2021
... related issue, which in turn saw the mandate of the fund broadened. Since inception, to August end, the fund returned 10.6% versus the benchmark's 9.8%. In the year to August end, it achieved 33.8% while the benchmark saw 29%. Australian Ethical ...

Results out: 13 funds fail YFYS performance test

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021
... test has two components: average investment returns (net of investment costs and taxes) for the last eight financial years versus a benchmark, and the administration fees for the last financial year versus a benchmark. If on adding the two numbers, the ...

Iress steady amid OneVue integration

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021
... for the first half of 2021, in line with full year guidance. Pro forma net profit was up 9% and pro forma EPS was up 6% versus the prior comparative period," chief executive Andrew Walsh said. "The improved performance was driven by growth in trading ...