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Australia world class in retirement wellbeing

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... shows. Australia nabbed the seventh spot for retiree security in the 2020 Natixis Investment Managers Global Retirement Index (GRI) and placed third in the Finances in Retirement sub-index due to mandatory superannuation. Overall, Australia received ...

Pension funds sue Allianz Global Investors

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... they sought to deliver substantial returns, net of fees, of as much as 10% above the returns of the fund's benchmark, an index like the S&P 500. As was fully disclosed, the Structured Alpha funds involved risks commensurate with those higher returns. ...

ETFs undermine product comparison: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... the lack of standardisation in calculating NAV per share (which is often undisclosed); and hidden costs like advisory and index-licensing fees. ETFGI estimates there is US$6.1 trillion of assets sitting in ETFs/ETPs globally. Australia has about $65.5 ...

Active manager performance slumps: SPIVA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... asset-weighted bases. The majority (73%) of bond fund managers however, did not beat the S&P/ASX Australian Fixed Interest 0+ Index. A-REITs lost about 22% in the six months to June, while the S&P/ASX 200 A-REIT suffered a loss of 21.29%. Nearly 45% ...

Fidelity launches global fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... and US$40 billion. The fund charges a management fee of 1.10% per annum and is benchmarked against the MSCI World Mid Cap Index. The minimum initial investment is $25,000. The fund managers said there is a lot more to global investing than the mega-household ...

Chief economist update: The W in the second wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... too..." -Leif Garrett, When I Think of You' Right in the middle of the Northern Hemisphere summer, the Euro Stoxx-50 index surged by 42.7% from the eight-year low it plumbed in the middle of March this year The gradual easing of restrictions has ...

Financial advice firms facing failure: Dynamic Asset Consulting

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2020
... expected to continue there are still plenty of opportunities for investors. "It is probably one of the worst times to be an index investor, yet one of the best times in history to be an active investor as a result of the distortions we are seeing in ...

BetaShares' Nasdaq ETF surpasses $1bn

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
... 17.2% per annum and global shares by 13.2% per annum in this same time frame. Vynokur maintained that despite the Nasdaq 100 index's recent pullback, the drivers of growth still remain. "The recent pullback in global technology stocks needs to be seen ...

S&P launches sustainable versions of flagship indices

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
... sustainability screened versions of its core US equity indices. The new series includes the S&P 500 Sustainability Screened Index, the S&P MidCap 400 Sustainability Screened Index, and the S&P SmallCap 600 Sustainability Screened Index. S&P said the ...

MLC cuts fees, commissions

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
... administration fee on the cash fund will reduce from 0.81% to 0.55%. The admin fee for the MLC Vanguard Australian Share Index Fund will reduce from 1.13% to 0.72% and the admin fee for all other investment options will reduce from 1.35% to 0.94%. For ...