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Specialist advice businesses optimal: Barrett

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
... last three years, you can see a downward trend," he said. "That's because it is really hard to stand out and justify your fees to consumers when you're not truly mastering something." Barrett said, from the point of view of the consumer, it becomes obvious ...

Australian Unity profits plummet

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
... In addition to other responses to the pandemic, the board of Australian Unity announced it would forgo 10% of its director fees from July 1 until December 2020. Australian Unity also announced that its senior staff would receive no variable remuneration ...

Winton fund looks to change fee structure

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
... and also on the ASX's mFund platform. The local version previously charged 1.78% p.a. of the fund's NAV as the management fees and 16.4% p.a. on the value of net profit from futures trading, after reconciling any losses from the latter that were carried ...

Fees fall after super mergers: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
Members whose super funds have merged in the last three years have seen their fees decrease by 20%, according to new analysis. Rainmaker looked at 13 mergers involving 22 super funds; 11 traditional mergers, the integration of Virgin Super and Mercer ...

Instos dial up alternatives allocations

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... surrounding alternatives. Eight in 10 cited their primary concern is high valuations. This is followed by issues surrounding fees (71%), complexity (61%) and the lack of transparency (39%). Inwood said these concerns could put a brake on the adoption ...

Count Financial faces class action

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... failed to ensure adviser remuneration was free from conflict, act in the best interests of customers nor provide services when fees were charged. Count Financial was a subsidiary of CBA until October 2019 when it was acquired by CountPlus. CBA has provided ...

LIC seeks conversion to ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... manger or the strategy," Higgins said. "I don't think it [potential switches from LICs/LITs to ETFs] is about stamping fees," he said.

Vanguard fund drops "cash plus" name

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... with its underlying assets, increasing transparency for investors," a spokesperson for the company said. It also dropped the fees of the fund from 0.29% p.a. to 0.19% p.a. for the wholesale fund and says the investment strategy remains unchanged. Vanguard's ...

Morningstar upgrades four, downgrades 10

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... more explicitly accounts for historical performance of funds against their category index, as well as individual fund-level fees. "We take a medium- to long-term outlook when determining qualitative recommendations," it said. "Our views about the merits ...

Market rebound leaves behind active managers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... and cash funds amid the market uncertainty, while fee discounting further contributed to a 2.2% decline in average realised fees. On a year-on-year basis, median revenue and average realised fees fell by 7.1% and 3.7% respectively. Average AUM the end ...