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Boutique appoints portfolio manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2019
A Sydney funds management boutique has appointed a portfolio manager from Investors Mutual, as it sees increased demand from advice practices for equities income solutions. Tomas Vasquez is joining Vertium Asset Management as a portfolio manager and ...

SMSF gender gap reduces over time

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2019
... across all SMSFs, which Class said indicates the gender gap narrows over time. The data comes from Class' most recent benchmark report, which uses data from more than 26,000 SMSFs established on Class within the five years from 2014. According to the ...

Chief economist update: The tweet that reignited the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2019
... index jumped by as much as 46.1% before closing 20.0% higher on the day. There was blood in the equity markets with most benchmark indices closing in the red, led by a 5.8% drop in China's CSE 300 index with all others in-between caught in the crossfire. ...

GSFM announces strategic partnership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
GSFM has announced a strategic partnership with an overseas asset management firm. Canada-based Cambridge Global Asset Management will be partnering with GSFM to distribute the Cambridge Global Smaller Companies fund in the Australian and New Zealand ...

Industry funds dominate AAA quality list

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019
One-in-four superannuation products have achieved Rainmaker's AAA quality benchmarks this year, the majority of which are provided by not-for-profit funds. Following an in-depth assessment of 750 superannuation products, only 174 or 23.2% received ...

Super fund awards $100m debt mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2019
Brandywine Global has won a $100 million debt mandate from a $12 billion industry superannuation fund. LGIAsuper appointed the Legg Mason affiliate to manage an emerging market debt portfolio via the Brandywine Global Sovereign Credit Fund. Launched ...

Future Fund crosses $150 billion

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2019
... billion medical research fund picked up its performance and returned 3.7% over one year to March 31, and now is above the benchmark return. The $14.2 billion DisabilityCare Australia Fund returned 2.3% over the 12 months, the same as its benchmark target. ...

Advisers loyal to XPLAN: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2019
XPLAN continues to be the top application of choice for financial advisers for the 12th consecutive year. This is according to the latest Investment Trends Planning Software Benchmarking Report, which showed XPLAN blitzed 29 of 34 categories. Other ...

Tribeca fund cops another departure, downgraded

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2019
... disorderly." The resignations come at a time when the fund's recent performance has been strained (down 11.2% relative to benchmark over one year), though the strategy is still front running the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation Index by 2.41% per annum since ...

Income only falls by 11% in retirement: Grattan

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
... This is a two percentage point revision to its earlier projections published in November. "This is well above the 70% benchmark endorsed by the OECD, and more than enough to maintain pre-retirement living standards," Grattan said. "Many low-income Australians ...