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Hostplus holds on to MySuper top spot

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2021
... single-strategy MySuper option in the year ending April, as superannuation's rebound continued. The Rainmaker MySuper Index returned 18.7% in the 12 months to April. The month's returns were 70bps lower to 2.2%, as equities and property performed ...

Bloomberg expands equity indices

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2021
Bloomberg expanded its global equity index range to include emerging market country benchmarks, sector and thematic index capabilities. It is the latest update since the multi-national markets and media giant published its US benchmarks in September ...

Principal Real Estate wins SMA mandate

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
... BT Panorama. The Principal Global Real Estate Securities strategy aims to outperform the FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed (Net) Index. It focuses on exploiting mispricing at a stock level by conducting detailed, bottom-up fundamental research and identifying ...

Chief economist update: Home sweet home

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
... borrow are borrowing... to the hilt before rising house prices priced them out of the market. CoreLogic's home value index shows that the "five city capital aggregate" index increased by another 2.3% in the month of May (from April's 1.8%) to ...

BlackRock unifies offering, rejigs executives

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021
... iShares Wealth Australasia. She will lead a team responsible for the distribution of BlackRock's alpha-seeking strategies, index and iShares offering and whole portfolio services to wealth management, bank and platform clients. Further to this, director ...

Chief economist update: Australia on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021
... have every reason to be confident because Australian consumers are confident and spending. The Westpac-Melbourne Institute index of consumer confidence remained elevated at a reading of 113.1 in May -- the second highest print for the Index since April ...

Investors move to thematic funds

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
... year. These include BetaShares Climate Change Innovation, VanEck Vectors Global Clean Energy, NT World Green Transition Index Fund (AUD), NT World Green Transition Index Fund (NZD), Lazard Global Digital Health Fund, BetaShares Cloud Computing ETF and ...

Chief economist update: The UK's going OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
... pricing power to private sector businesses in May, as signalled by the strongest rate of output charge inflation since this index began nearly 22 years ago." This supports expectations that the BOE could lift interest rates by the middle next year, recently ...

Chief economist update: Victoria's victory against the virus voided

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2021
... But Australia is now in a better place compared with the lockdowns of days past. Although the Westpac-Melbourne Institute index of consumer confidence dropped by 4.8% in May from April, the 113.1 reading is the second highest since April 2010. And why ...

AMP adds partnered portfolios to MyNorth

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
... range of PMPs includes the first values-based sustainable managed portfolios in the market a portfolio series which combines index and active management. "Advisers can expect more managed portfolios and innovative retirement solutions to be launched ...