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Impact investing set to skyrocket: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... to skyrocket over the coming years, with new research predicting the market will reach $100 billion by 2025. The Benchmarking Impact 2020 report, coming out of the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) found that the market for impact ...

Sole purpose test poses SMSF rent relief issue

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
... could incorporate discounting rent, deferring rent or both." SMSF landlords could structure their relief against benchmarking materials of what relief is being granted in the rental market by arm's length parties for similar properties, SISFA said. It ...

Performance analyst jobs hold steady in COVID-19

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
... pandemic, according to Kaizen Recruitment. The role -- with responsibilities including calculating, attributing and benchmarking and reporting fund performance at security and portfolio levels -- remains a great gateway to other investment roles. "We ...

Investment approaches in change phase

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... positive performance in both return terms and risk adjusted terms." It would be too much to say we will be done with benchmarking in the future, but Unger said larger institutions, that were slowly implementing TPA, are likely feeling more pressure now ...

Best MySuper products revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
Rainmaker's latest MySuper benchmarking report has seen industry funds on top for market share and performance as at December end. For MySuper products with a single investment strategy (as opposed to lifecycle products) AustralianSuper was on top. ...

FPA launches benchmarking tool

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... practice relative to its peers in these extraordinary times." FPA professional partnerships manager Ken Whitton said the benchmarking tool would allow advisers to develop forward-looking plans for their practices. "The FPA READY Index will provide a ...

Netwealth leads the platform pack

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
Investment Trends has released the 16th edition of its Platform Benchmarking and Competitive Analysis Report, with Netwealth taking out the top gong. The wealth management platform led the pack for overall platform functionality, followed closely by ...

New super fund targets millennials

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
... averages. The fund is claiming its investment strategy will align with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. "Regarding benchmarking, we have an exclusive retail agreement with an independent third-party data provider, Sustainable Platform, to measure ...

MySuper heat map lauds industry funds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
... not including the cost of default insurance for example - the heat map was serving its purpose for the regulator by benchmarking funds following the Royal Commission and final Productivity Commission report. "There are funds that have high fees, low ...

APRA releases MySuper heat map

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
... performance comparisons, and said APRA should not have excluded the effect of administration fees in much of the benchmarking, noting the regulator's acknowledgment that high admin fees are associated with poor performance. It also sided with ASFA ...