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Passive is a Faustian bargain: Ariel CIO

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2017
... regimes, from the UK to the USA, play into the hands of active managers," she said. "Outperformance of each approach is cyclical, not secular. Studies have shown dramatic reversals occur when the active style suffers bottom decile performance versus ...

Bad credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2017
Good one month, not so good the next. This is the story of private sector credit in Australia - the month-on-month growth rates, at least. Total private sector credit went up by a lower than expected 0.2% in the month of January - the slowest pace since ...

Pricing error shaves $2.2m off Australian Ethical profit

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2017
... completed by 31 March 2017. Our approach is to put members back into the position that they would have been in had the error not occurred," Australian Ethical said. In order to prevent similar errors in the future, Australian Ethical also said shareholders ...

A good set of numbers (almost)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2017
... to 1.0% in Q4 2016 from 2.5% in Q3, 2.4% in Q2 and 3.4% in Q1. It appears that Australian companies' improving fortunes are not trickling down to their workers... they're flowing through to their shareholders instead. Commsec reports that out of the ...

Confusion reigns in super and life insurance: CHOICE

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2017
... year," CHOICE said in its submission. "About two thirds of this cost or $16,000 was due to duplicate insurance. This is clearly not an efficient use of resources, with fund erosion due to fees ultimately leading to an increased impost on the aged pension." ...

Link partners with fintech hub

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2017
... to develop initiatives in collaboration with Stone and Chalk that will foster fintech innovation. Link's alignment with the not-for-profit fintech hub follows a line of other recent partnerships including with Ignition Wealth, technology solution provider ...

Wednesday delivery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2017
... the yield on 10-year US Treasuries to 2.31% at the close of last week's trade from a high of 2.51% four weeks ago. This is not surprising for apart from the gradually rising doubts over Trump's pro-growth policies, there are his "anti-growth" policies ...

NZ Super Fund CEO joins PPI board

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2017
... Burns, as its new vice chair. Johnson said Burns "has made tremendous contributions to the board in a relatively short time, not to mention his significant impact on PPI's program development." "I am delighted that the board has chosen Jeb to step forward ...

Open data would protect advice industry: Adviser Ratings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2017
... to refer to as part of their onboarding process, to ensure standardised reference checking across the industry and protect not only consumers but also other advisers. "In instances where an adviser has been banned previously or committed some form of ...

Aussie fintech maintains strength

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2017
Australian fintech investment in 2016 remained strong despite a 47.2% global slide in fintech investment, according to KPMG International's The Pulse of Fintech report. Total fintech investment in Australia reached $626 million across 25 deals in 2016 ...