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What Future Fund looks for in managers

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2019
... partnerships with the Future Fund should pay attention to ESG, succession planning and treating the sovereign wealth fund well in times of capital abundance, a Future Fund executive said at a conference in Melbourne yesterday. Speaking to the Australian ...

Suitability of managed accounts grows

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2019
... 2019. About 4% of respondents to the survey said there are too many model portfolio and ETF choices available, however four times that number said there are far too many managed fund options.

Chief economist update: Germany in the budget's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2019
... expanding by 0.4% in the first quarter, more than halving the annual growth rate to 0.4% from 0.9%. These are desperate times for Deutschland and it calls for desperate measures. It can't do anything anymore about monetary policy, the European Central ...

Time to reset member return expectations?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019
... expectations in their communications with members. Since the GFC, the world has entered "very strange and uncharted economic times", typified by the issuance of bonds with negative coupons by several European countries. Meanwhile, global debt sits at ...

BT faces fees for no service class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019
... Rapoport said Westpac Life was given complete discretion about the interest rates that it would pass on to members, and at times kept almost half of the returns on members' money for itself. "Superannuation members trusted BT with their retirement ...

Chief economist update: Foolish takeaway on US-China talks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019
... partners') retaliation. But we've all seen this before. We've been fooled not just once, not just two or three but many times by talks that lead to expectations to a deal... only to watch both the US and China up the ante on the trade war. ...

Look to 2008 survivors: Ausbil

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2019
... small caps as the place to be. These are asset classes which contain growth opportunities even in extremely tough economic times, the fund manager said. At a briefing yesterday, Ausbil portfolio manager of global listed infrastructure Tim Humphreys said ...

Risk commissions must be retained: MetLife

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... is that commissions be retained. The research also found clients who have had a review within the last 12 months are 2.1 times more likely to refer their adviser to family and friends, the data showed. However, it also revealed that 30% of consumers ...

The highest honour: 2018 AOTY reflects on win

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2019
... worry about the noise out there. Robertson added: "Try and add as much value as you can anywhere you go and although at times it will feel you are doing all the giving, at some point it always comes back to you (with compound interest)."

Climate policy more than divesting: UniSuper

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2019
... Howitt said unfortunately environmentalism had become a luxury good. Up when things are good, down when things aren't. "When times are good, prosperity is high, we get very concerned about doing right by the environment," Howitt noted. "When times are ...