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COVID-19 ushers in the future of work

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... effect of COVID-19 on commercial office space is hard to work out right now," she said. Interestingly, at a QIC roundtable on April 27, AustralianSuper chief investment officer Mark Delaney questioned whether office buildings were a prudent investment ...

Few funds immune to ERS

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... corners. The Australian Bureau of Statistics revealed this week that employment fell by 594,300 people between March and April this year. A further 600,000 were left underemployed after having their hours cut. While the numbers for retail funds were ...

Regal Atlantic fund perks up in April

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
Regal's Atlantic Absolute Return Fund posted a 14% rise in April, looking up from its -58.6% returns for March and -32% for February. The fund, which invests in global stocks and aims to max returns regardless of market fluctuations, benefited from ...

Adviser guilty of misuse of client money

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... Services, where he worked for just over two years before beginning an almost four year stint at Synchron, which ended in April 2018. The charges carry various maximum penalties of between 10 to 14 years' imprisonment. Dick's next appearance will ...

Hedge funds rally in April, but YTD still bleed red

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
New data has revealed that hedge funds around the globe staged a recovery in April, with a positive aggregate return of more than 5%. It follows a disappointing March, with almost all the hedge funds tracked by a global database and analytics tool in ...

Industry funds revise ERS modelling

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... of Treasury division head retirement income policy Robert Jeremenko. The regulator revealed it wrote a letter to ISA on April 20, asking about the modelling underpinning industry super's estimates. The regulator's letter told ISA it was concerned the ...

Pengana eyes fully franked dividend

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... investment management team that has demonstrated its ability to deliver throughout the cycle," Gooch said. In the 10 months to April 30, the investment portfolio returned 8.2% compared to the benchmark 2.4%. PIA chief executive Russel Pillemer said it ...

BetaShares launches new ETF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... high credit quality, with 40% of the bonds in the portfolio rated AAA and an average portfolio credit rating of AA as at April 30 this year. The fund's index methodology selects only G7 government bonds with relatively long maturities. BetaShares said ...

Chief economist update: Easing does it (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... cases in mainland China on May 9 to 14, according to the National Health Commission on Sunday, the highest number since April 28. "Among them was the first case for more than a month in the city of Wuhan in central Hubei province where the outbreak was ...

Active share, past outperformance can predict returns

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... funds). A new research paper, by K.J. Martijn Cremers, Jon A. Fulkerson and Timothy B. Riley and published as a first draft on April 20, takes the analysis of active share to SMAs. "[The]...suggests that strong past performance alone is insufficient ...