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New study taps into investor behavior

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018
Four Melbourne-based researchers have tested a cognitive training scheme that could help investors overcome fixation with purchase prices and limit losses. Researchers from Monash University, University of Melbourne and La Trobe University conducted ...

Financial literacy in females continues to lag

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2018
... literacy and by considerable measure, according to the latest HILDA survey. For the latest study, University of Melbourne researchers administered a five-point financial literacy test, assessing respondents on numeracy, inflation, diversification, risk-return ...

Should high-income earners pay charity levy?

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018
... also help to address rising levels of mistrust around how governments raise and use taxes to provide services, the researchers said. The paper also notes evidence to support the positive benefits of altruism; the act of giving makes people happy, healthy ...

Global fund manager creates executive role

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... Australia, Shepherd said. At a recent Financial Standard roundtable discussing how fund managers, financial advisers, researchers and analysts build investment portfolios for market crises, CFM president Philippe Jordan said true-to-label balanced portfolios ...

Better than bonds: A new approach to lifecycle investment

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2018
... compounding benefits of executing a better-fit asset-allocation strategy over a long-term investment horizon," the researchers write. The proposition? As fund managers look to increase defensive exposure as the member ages, they should pick defensive ...

Zenith hires former asset management chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2018
... was on relationship management across institutional and retail channels, including dealer groups, family offices, researchers and platforms. In October 2017, Concise Asset Management announced it wound up its Mid Cap Fund after about 10 years of operation. ...

Volatility divides investors: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2018
... on portfolio returns, the latest Natixis Investment Managers survey shows. About eight-in-ten (78%) of the 200 fund researchers and analysts who participated in the survey said they have been surprised that volatility had remained so low for so long. ...

Super fund launches renewable energy investment option

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
... decarbonisation for the entire energy system by 2050 would require a 12.4% allocation or a $788 billion investment. The researchers calculated investing 13.5% and 11.6% of super assets will generate returns of 5% and 10% respectively. It's estimated ...

Thought leadership: Building portfolios for market crises

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
Financial Standard's latest roundtable event turned attention to how fund managers, financial advisers, researchers and analysts build investment portfolios for market crises. SQM Research head of research Robert da Silva says behavioural insights over ...

Pengana recruits former AFL player

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2018
... The first, Broc McCauley, joins Pengana as business development manager, responsible for servicing dealer groups, researchers, platforms and advisers in Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania. McCauley is coming over from Equity and ...