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Passive investors probably not Marxist parasites: MSCI

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
... in the absence of insights, holding the market enables them to bear systematic equity risk and capture the equity risk premium. "Blaming benchmarks for the weight they attribute to an asset is like blaming the thermometer for the weather."

Life insurance reforms to be re-introduced

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... responding to the LICG, FSC chief executive Sally Loane said the reduction in high upfront commissions on a policy's first year premium proposed in the legislation were necessary as they "created an incentive to offer advice that may not be in the best ...

Risk inflows reflect boost in market

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
Strategic Insight, formerly known as Plan for Life, has released its report on individual and group risk premium inflows for last financial year, showing an overall boost in the market. Total risk market inflows grew 5.5%, increasing from $14.9 billion ...

Global equity managers not currency selectors

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
... book-to-market and cash flow-to-price ratios, i.e. value stocks; and Less liquid stocks, which tend to offer a return premium to compensate for the additional risk associated with illiquidity. "Over the study period, there was no significant return premium ...

Retirement income opportunities begin early

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
Choice chief executive Alan Kirkland believes bi-partisan government support is needed for a superannuation objective that makes the retirement income message clear. Kirkland says too often debates occur around super's purpose and whether people's retirement ...

Robeco Boston Partners finding value in the "three circles"

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2016
... according to Robeco Boston Partners portfolio manager Joshua Jones. In Sydney to discuss Robeco's Boston Partners Global Premium Equities Fund, Jones described the Boston Partners global equity suite - which includes a long-only global all-cap fund ...

A-REITs will have to work harder in 2017

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2016
... billion of non-core assets - particularly ones in inner urban areas that residential developers have been prepared to pay a premium for and with the intention to redeploy the capital into new developments. "We have always advocated investing in quality ...

ClearView updates LifeSolutions suite, increases premiums

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... protection premiums, effective as of 21 October 2016. The changes include product upgrades, simplification of overall premium rating structure and increases to income protection premiums in line with recent market increases. ClearView has introduced ...

Mark Dunsford attacks FSC over life reforms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2016
... Retail Life Insurance and Advice found that remuneration arrangements allowing commissions of 120% of the first year's premium created an incentive to offer advice that may not be in the best interests of the client, notwithstanding the legal requirements ...

New board members, partnership for BondAdviser

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2016
... and NAB. He also has direct experience developing businesses, having established individually managed account business, Premium Wealth, in 2000. Abram has more than 30 years' experience in banking and financial services. He has held a number of senior ...