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HESTA announces three GM appointments

KANIKA SOOD | TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020

The $50 billion industry fund appointed a new general manager for investment risk, while also announcing two internal leadership changes. HESTA has hired Matt Cameron as general manager - investment risk, while current employees Katrina Waghorne is ...

Chief economist update: Labor Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020

It would have been funny had it not been for the gravity of the circumstances the planet has found itself in these days of the coronavirus pandemic. For right on the eve of "Labor Day", the US Department of Labor reports that more than 30 million Americans ...

Chief economist update: Approaching peak isolation

BENJAMIN ONG | WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020

Has the world reached peak isolation? The growing clamour to ease/end social restrictions and lockdowns indicates that "inmates" are growing restless. Humans, after all, are social animals. There's only so much online interaction - Facebook, Whatsapp ...

Australia versus the world

ELIZA BAVIN | THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020

While industry professionals praised the government's stimulus package, the International Monetary Fund seems convinced it's not enough. So who is right? The IMF predicted that global growth will be -3.3% this year, while Australia's GDP will be significantly ...

Former financial adviser permanently banned

HARRISON WORLEY | TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020

A former financial adviser is the first person to be permanently banned from having any involvement in financial services or credit businesses in Australia. ASIC has used its newly sharpened teeth to permanently ban former Adelaide financial adviser ...

Westpac names new chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020

Westpac has confirmed acting chief executive Peter King will take on the role permanently to steer the bank through ongoing uncertainty. In an announcement today, Westpac chair John McFarlane said King has agreed to take on the role for the next two ...

Chief economist update: Australian recession here we come

BENJAMIN ONG | WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2020

"If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." This quote, attributed to Alice Roosevelt Longworth - daughter of former US President Teddy Roosevelt - had me struggling on whether or not to submit my daily rant for today. ...

Investment Manager of the Year named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020

... including performance across multiple time periods, volatility, downside risk, and multiple performance ratios such as Sharpe and Sortino. That same analytical process was applied to 20 other categories across six major asset class sectors. "The Investment ...

Investment Leadership Awards finalists revealed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020

... determined by a quantitative methodology that equally weights six-year performance factors with five key risk measures; the Sharpe ratio, Sortino ratio, Omega ratio, standard deviation of monthly returns, semi-standard deviation and sum of negative returns. ...

Industry funds dominate risk-adjusted MySuper returns

HARRISON WORLEY | FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019

... when it comes to providing risk-adjusted returns in MySuper products, producing a risk-adjusted return of 9.3% p.a. and a Sharpe ratio - the amount of returns per unit of risk - of 2.0 over a three-year period to the end of September. Sunsuper, Cbus ...

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Ausfood Super appoints chief executive

ELIZABETH FRY

Australian Food Super, the superannuation fund set up for employees in the meat industry, has named Michael Sykes as its new CEO.

mFunds sparked ASX outage, $1m credit issued

KARREN VERGARA

The ASX said the outage from last month largely stemmed from the now-defunct mFunds and will subsequently credit participants $1 million to make amends.

Aussie shares cost 8% more on rebalance days: Dimensional

KARREN VERGARA

Investing in the S&P/ASX 300 on a day it rebalances puts an 8% premium on share prices, a phenomenon that follows major global indices, new research from Dimensional Fund Advisors finds.

Rest appoints first-ever chief of staff

ANDREW MCKEAN

Rest has appointed a senior wealth management leader and superannuation expert from Insignia Financial to take the reins as chief of staff.

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Schroders Australia's Kellie Wood talks about winning a lot, so much so that it's become a well-intentioned joke with her co-workers - but it's this ambitious attitude that spurs her on every day. Eliza Bavin writes.

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