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Chief economist update: Good US employment news is not so good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2020
There's good news and bad news in the US labour market report for July. First, the good news: The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that total non-farm payrolls rose by 1.8 million in July - more than market expectations for an increase ...

MySuper returns negative

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020
... and Emergency Services Superannuation Fund which delivered 2.5%. Australian Ethical's and BUSSQ's MySuper options weren't far behind on 2.2% each. Future Super's balanced option and UniSuper's sustainable balanced option were the best performing balanced ...

Tax impacting super fund investment strategies: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2020
... behavioural biases and is fundamentally inconsistent with the fund's nature as a long-term investor," it said. "In our view, far better to accept that, like other aspects of investing, equity portfolio evolution in a taxable environment entails short-term ...

CFA Institute reveals new exam regime

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2020
The CFA Institute has bid farewell to paper-based exams and has announced more flexible and convenient scheduling. The move comes in what the CFA Institute says will turn the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic "into positive opportunities"; modernising ...

Perpetual opens retail raise

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
... market and a formidable platform to scale our business internationally." Barrow Hanley's 21 strategies cover US, Europe and Far East global and emerging market equities and US fixed income. The total FUM is split as 60% US equities, 15% global equities ...

Chief economist update: Could COVID-19 dissenters be correct?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
... branded as looneys. Us, saner mortals, can deride, laugh and sneer at them all we want but only time will tell who's "far right" and who's wrong. 'Readers Digest' published less than five months ago "12 Conspiracy Theories That Actually ...

Netwealth hits fund managers with new fee

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020
... offer fee discounts to financial advisers, licensees or managed accounts providers, which are processed as fee rebates. So far, Netwealth did not charge fund managers a fee for this. But this month, the platform sent updated contracts to fund managers ...

AMP, BT and CBA to face class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020
... and CBA also sold customers overpriced in-house life, income protection and total and permanent disability insurance but so far proceedings have only been filed against AMP. "We argue all three financial services providers behaved in a way that was unfair ...

Pinnacle puts zero-fee ETF experiment to bed

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... PNI. "Strong mark to market with this update which we expect to extend across consensus at the result, with FY21 forecasts far too low. We see long-term value in the business given its formidable distribution team and ability to pick and partner with ...

Advisers file class action against AMP

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
... view the class action as a last resort, saying the preference is always to negotiate fair and reasonable outcomes which, so far as the BOLR changes go, AMP has not been open to. However, having met with AMP regularly since November last year, Macdonald ...