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AXA fine-tunes Bernstein mandates

AXA has reviewed its global equity value mandates to bring them into line with more standard Bernstein approaches. Effective from 3 October, the mandate re-alignment standardises the AXA offered funds to make them more consistent with the approach and ...

Aegis maintains approval in Macquarie CDO

Aegis has maintained its 'approved' rating of Macquarie's structured product, Generation Income Notes (Generator) stating the product offers investors security and the opportunity for capital gain. It last reviewed the product in November 2004. Although ...

Women retirees worse off than men: Citibank

Women may make better drivers than men but they fail to apply the same level of precaution when it comes to their retirement, at least according to the latest Citibank research on retirement savings. The report, which looked at the retirement savings ...

Morningstar places BT's international equities on hold

Morningstar has given BT's international equities strategy a 'hold' placing stating that it may take more time for its team to integrate fundamental and new quantitative inputs. In August of this year, Morningstar placed BT's listed property on hold ...

10 per cent of companies churn banks each year

Banking analyst East & Partners has just reported that Australia's major companies are increasingly shopping around for the best financial deal with bank churn rates jumping 28 per cent during the year. According to the report, 'Australia's Top 500 ...

Industry bigger than we thought: ABS

The Australian bureau of Statistics has announced that the managed funds industry may be bigger than its official estimates give it credit for. The problem however, is it's not sure how much bigger. In its latest release for the Managed Funds sector ...

ASIC issues guidance on general advice warning and SOAs

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued an example Statement of Advice (SOA) and released a proposal to reduce the repetition of advice warning for Australian financial services licensees and their representatives. The ...

S&P rates St.George's second global RMBS

Standard & Poor's (S&P) has issued preliminary ratings to St.George Bank's second lot of Australian residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) to be issued globally this year. The securities will be offered to investors via the Crusade Global Trust ...

Vanguard warns investors to consider tax and fees on investments

AAP | TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2005

The global chairman of index fund manager Vanguard Group has warned retail investors to consider investments after tax and fees, saying some absolute return products are inappropriate for retail investors. Vanguard chairman and chief executive officer ...

Suggestions grow on how to improve under 40s savings

Submissions to the Senate Standing Committee on Economics Finance and Public Administration regarding the savings of consumers under 40 continue with additional recommendations revolving around increased tax breaks and government rebates. The Australian ...

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Federal Court lifts Merhi's travel ban

KARREN VERGARA

Former financial adviser Ferras Merhi is now free to travel as the Federal Court lifted travel restraint orders imposed one year ago.

Hostplus delivers double-digit FY26 returns

RIDDHIMA TALWANI

Hostplus Balanced (MySuper) option delivered members 10.8% for the financial year 2025-26, while the Indexed Balanced option and the High Growth option returned members 11.06% and 12.61% respectively.

ASIC levy estimates jump 19% as regulator ramps up funding

VINNY VUCAGO

ASIC has lifted its estimated industry funding levy by almost 20% for 2025-26, with regulated entities expected to shoulder $400.5 million in regulatory costs as the corporate watchdog expands its supervision and enforcement activities.

GQG bleeds over US$7bn in FUM in June

MATTHEW WAI

Despite recording positive investment performance, GQG Partners observed a significant outflow, with net outflows of $4.62 billion recorded in the month of June, as FUM slipped to $225 billion at June end, compared to $235.5 billion in the month prior.

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