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Northern Trust hires chief investment strategist

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2018
... then New York. "In that capacity he was directly responsible for the house view on EMEA including economic and market analysis and worked closely with the multi-asset teams to help them with their asset allocation decisions," Northern Trust said. Prior ...

Mason Stevens launches global equity SMA

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2018
... It invests in quality growth companies across the market capitalisation spectrum based on fundamental bottom-up stock analysis, and seeks to outperform the MSCI World ex-Australia index. Mason Stevens managing director Thomas Bignill said there has been ...

Dishonest advice fees dent Westpac earnings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... provisions for customer refunds where certain advice fees were charged by salaried financial planners following greater analysis dating back to 2008. "These include where advice services were not provided, as well as where we have not been able to sufficiently ...

SMSFs seek offshore diversification

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
... international managed funds, ETFs and direct shares continues to climb as exposure to cash and term deposits drops. Latest analysis from SuperConcepts shows allocations to international investments rose by 1.3% in the 12 months to June 2018, climbing ...

Chief economist update: Surplus here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
... manager, economist, asset allocation strategist, portfolio analyst and stock market analyst. Check out his economics analysis here.

Glut of underperformance in managed funds: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2018
... Nearly eight-in-ten managed funds in Australia failed to hit benchmark returns over a 10-year horizon, according to new analysis by InvestSMART. The researchers modelled Morningstar data for 5297 manager funds that have a track record of 10 years. They ...

Aussie fund managers face machine learning challenges

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2018
... systems to 'learn' independently with data to automate processes and increase efficiency. The data set available for analysis spans basic market and economic data to data from social media sources, satellite imagery, written documents and weather forecasts. ...

Chief economist update: Stability is doing it for Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
... manager, economist, asset allocation strategist, portfolio analyst and stock market analyst. Check out his economics analysis here.

Franking credits inquiry launched

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2018
... year in pension income," Maroney said. "The notion that this proposal will only affect the wealthy is simply wrong. An analysis of ATO and Treasury data shows it is those on modest incomes who will be most affected, refuting Labor's argument that the ...

Big-spending retirees live in Melbourne: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2018
Melbourne's surrounding suburbs are home to Australia's highest spending retirees, Milliman analysis shows. Retirees living in the wealthy enclaves of Armadale, Prahran, Windsor, South Yarra East and Toorak or Stonnington West spend $56,711 per year ...