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March ASX200 volatility worse than GFC

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... none of them were consecutive. "Despite having fallen from its peaks, the COVID-19 volatility remains about twice the average," Allan Gray chief investment officer Simon Mawhinney said. "Sharemarkets are the most volatile they've been in the past ...

Chief economist update: Powell blamed for fall on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... but blame your words for the fall on Wall Street overnight. The Wall Street Journal published: "The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 500 points Wednesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said further stimulus could be needed ...

Morningstar downgrades two Vanguard funds to neutral

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... fund, which has been running since 1998, tracks the S&P/ASX 300 Index and over five and 10 years to March end had beat the average peer by "a small but convincing margin". It has tracked its index efficiently and has a low portfolio turnover, giving ...

Hedge funds rally in April, but YTD still bleed red

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... global head of research Peter Laurelli, the gains in April were generally the greatest among strategies that had the lowest average returns for the year. "For instance, Event Driven-Activist funds saw the highest returns among the primary fund strategies ...

Majority of ERS applications from low balance accounts: AMP

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... retirement," Bourguignon said. Other insights from analysis of the first two weeks of AMP client applications revealed the average age of applicants is 40, with 66% under the age of 44. AMP said 70% of applicants have super balances of $50,000 or less ...

Investors pile into companies on life support

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... cheap. "With a forward PE ratio of approximately 15.5x these valuations are much higher than during the GFC where the average PE ratio over 2008-10 was 12.5x on a forward basis," he said. "Given the recovery is anticipated to be sharper than that experienced ...

BetaShares launches new ETF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... which GGOV invests in are typically of very 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 ...

APRA releases fund-level ERS data

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... APRA's figures to May 3 show 830,000 payments were made totalling $6.3 billion in the second week of the scheme. The average payment was $7629 and the average processing time being 3.1 days following approval by the ATO. Over one million Australians ...

Active share, past outperformance can predict returns

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... across 3283 investment products in US actively managed equities between July 2007 and June 2016. The sample reported an average alpha of -0.52% a year and an active share of 81%. Next, it looked at predictability of future returns for managers that outperformed ...

Macquarie advice shift offers mixed results

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... the group's results, a 2% increase on the year prior. Explaining the result, Macquarie said it experienced growth in average volumes across deposits, its loan portfolio and funds on its platforms. While the funds on Macquarie's platforms dropped ...