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Super funds revalue unlisted assets

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2020
... Pearce said. "When we conduct our stress testing, we assume a scenario where the worst three months of the GFC happens in a single day." Pearce said the conservative liquidity approach had held it in "good stead" so far, noting that the fund has been ...

Mutual fund assets lose $1.3 trillion

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2020
... US$775 billion ($1.3 trillion) in assets were wiped out of mutual fund strategies in the US during February, representing a single-month decline of nearly 5%, according to Cerulli. The research found ETF assets also plunged in February, declining nearly ...

Praemium rolls out investment tools, options

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... advisers could previously use the platform to cater to some ESG demands by placing holding exclusions, Praemium believes the single stock blocking approach is both time consuming and too involved, given preferences needed continual updating to accommodate ...

Chief economist update: Steady as it was, steady it will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2020
... war offensive toward the Eurozone. The fact remains that the euro's depreciation versus the US dollar is giving the single currency region a leg up. The euro has weakened by 0.5% this year to date and by 4.7% from a year earlier - supporting both ...

SMSFA chief slams regulators, FASEA

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020
... also wrote to about 18,000 SMSFs encouraging them to review their investment strategy where they had a high exposure to a single asset class, especially geared property," he said. "We have encouraged the ATO to be clear in its communication to ensure ...

Index investment soars: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020
... assets grew by 12.2%, significantly faster than the overall super market. Lifecycle MySuper assets grew 15% while single strategy MySuper assets grew 10%. But the big winner when it comes to super FUM was not for profit super funds which now claim more ...

What you read in 2019: Financial advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... and still turn a profit. And sadly, we've seen many financial advisers who have dedicated decades of their lives to a single licensee given just 30 days to pack up and go. Oh, and don't let the diminished multiple hit you on the way out. It's ...

APRA releases MySuper heat map

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
... return basis, despite higher fees generally being correlated with lower net returns. The regulator also found more single strategy products outperform the investment benchmarks than lifecycle product stages. Rowell said the release of the heat map marked ...

AMP given the boot by AFL

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019
... lifestage MySuper which costs a member in their 40s with a $50,000 balance about $600 per year. Hostplus's single strategy MySuper costs about $533 per annum for a $50,000 balance. In terms of performance, Hostplus is currently the fourth-best performer ...

Planners can prevent financial abuse

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
... her experiences with clients who are the parents of disabled children, and noted that often advisers will be dealing with single parents. "Unfortunately, the statistics are that when you've got a child with disabilities the parents are more likely to ...