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Super performance test needs personal rate of return: Adviser

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024
... up missing the mark on ensuring positive member outcomes, according to a financial advice expert advocating for better metrics. Mark Bastiaans, the principal financial adviser of AdviceSA, said the current time-weighted cash-flow methodology for the ...

UK regulators propose framework for workplace pension schemes

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024
... collaboration with the Department for Work and Pensions and the Pensions Regulator, would assess pension schemes on "public metrics that demonstrate value," including not just costs, but investment performance, and service quality, in a bid to improve ...

TAL appoints chief executive, individual life

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2024
... two decades of experience in the insurance sector, TAL said Teichner has a proven track record working across different metrics, organising the product development and management, as well as underwriting, pricing and data analytics. The "forward-thinking" ...

ANZ, Westpac 'the cheapest majors': Morningstar

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2024
... "Commonwealth Bank is expensive. On a forward P/E over 20 times and a fully franked dividend yield under 4%, valuation metrics leave little room for disappointment. The share price strength is at odds with our three-year EPS growth forecast of 4% per ...

Rest increases private credit investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
Rest is strengthening its position in Australian private credit by increasing its investment in Metrics Credit Partners' Real Estate Debt Fund (REDF). Rest said the move further diversifies its private markets and whole of fund exposures. Rest chief ...

Retirement Income Covenant still weak: APRA, ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2024
... was highlighted as one of the key areas in need of improvement in the thematic review report. "Without effective success metrics, how can trustees know that their strategies are working? Members deserve better," she said. The Association of Superannuation ...

Dexus sells three assets for $383.2m

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2024
... average capitalisation rate of the office portfolio is 6.01% while the industrial portfolio's is 5.45%. "The investment metrics displayed by recent sale activity support a softening in office market valuations," Dexus chief executive and managing ...

Systematic investing in fixed income: Critical success factors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2024
... those data is a laborious, research-intensive task. It involves amassing data that extend across a wide range of bond metrics, include point-in-time analytics for companies' financials across multiple fields and cover many fixed income classes globally," ...

Dexus sees $1.3bn wiped from portfolio value

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2024
... average capitalisation rate of the office portfolio is 6.01% while the industrial portfolio's is 5.45%. "The investment metrics displayed by recent sale activity support a softening in office market valuations," Dexus chief executive and managing director ...

Betashares captures most net flows in managed funds industry

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2024
... Wholesale Investments Trust, iShares Core S&P/ASX 200 ETF, Macquarie Enhanced AFI Fund, VanEck MSCI International Quality ETF, Metrics Direct Income Fund, and Betashares Global Shares ETF. Notably, of the top 10 products, half were fixed interest products ...