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SMSF home bias drags returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
Self-managed super funds' home bias dragged returns for the sector in the 12 months to February, latest SuperGuard 360 research shows. According to the SG360 SMSF Reference Index, SMSFs generated a 5.5% return (before fees and tax) - well below the ...

Chief economist update: Back to the shops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... in the month of March following three consecutive months of declines - 0.1% in December, -0.2% in January, -0.1% in February - that took the annual growth rate up to 4.5% from 4% in the previous month. The details of the report show that the bulk of ...

Vanguard launches two active factor ETFs

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
Vanguard will list its first active exchange-traded funds for Australian investors on the ASX tomorrow. The first of the two new ETFs is Global Value Equity (ASX: VVLU), and invests in global equities with value characteristics. The second, the Global ...

AMP admits to serious misconduct in RC submissions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
AMP has acknowledged hundreds of instances of misconduct in relation to the provision of financial advice between 1 January 2008 and 30 June 2015. In opening the Royal Commission's inquiry into financial advice today, Senior Counsel Assisting Rowena ...

Royal Commission must cast net wider

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
The next fortnight will see the Royal Commission grill some of Australia's biggest providers of financial advice, albeit with some noticeable absences. During the Commission's second round of hearings the big four banks and AMP will appear, as will ...

Open banking data to become super fund value add: QMV

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
As Australia inches towards a rollout of open banking services, a QMV principal consultant said superannuation funds should move to integrate open banking data to improve their services even before open data frameworks officially hit the super industry. ...

Flinders fund offers insto rates for retail investors on HUB24

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
Boutique fund manager Flinders Investment Partners is offering retail investors investment intellectual property (IP) from its Flinders Emerging Companies Fund at about 60% less than retail rates. The slashed retail rates, which are at par with institutional ...

Chief economist update: Trump trumps Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
... 0.75% when it meets again on the 10th of May. This is because while inflation has slowed - headline down to 2.7% in February (from 3.0% in January) and core at 2.4% (from 2.7%) - both measures remain above the BOE's 2% target that would gain more upward ...

MQA chief executive departs in management restructure

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
The chief executive of Macquarie Atlas Roads (MQA) will resign as part of a finalised agreement to remove Macquarie as MQA's investment manager and rename the company. In November last year, MQA's board announced it would "pursue an internalisation ...

Chief economist update: No target sign on India's back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
Trump and Xi's game of tariff poker goes on. Whether it's Trump's "art of the deal" tactic or a true blue (fallacious) plan to make "America Great Again," only Trump knows - problem is, China's Supremo isn't blinking. To be sure, the prospect of an ...