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Rice Warner questions super return targets

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2020
After COVID-19 put paid to the 2020 return hopes of superannuation funds, research house Rice Warner has questioned whether return targets should be lowered. Rice Warner has questioned whether superannuation return targets should be lowered. As the ...

Franklin Templeton cuts fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020
... Fund which will go from charging 1.13% per year in management costs to 0.90%. Two other global equities funds will also lower their fees, with the Templeton Global Equity Fund going from 1.13% to 0.95% per year. The Templeton Global Trust Fund will go ...

Calls for index industry disruption

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
... return, assemble diversified portfolios, and measure performance," Lefkovitz said. "Not only will increased competition lower costs, it will also provide a more robust tool kit with which to power investment decision-making."

HESTA asks Retirement Income Review to consider ERS

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... growing group of people experiencing homelessness and unless we reform our super system to make it fairer for women and the lower paid we are consigning the next generation of Australian women to the same grim reality," she said. HESTA is renewing its ...

Volatility wreaks havoc with heat map measures

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... during the period of volatility, highlighting the difficulty in assessing funds based on one risk measure. "Being higher or lower risk is neither a sign of a good or bad fund," Carruthers said. "It may well be an explicit decision taken to suit the demographic ...

Sargon buyers announce execs, ditch Sargon name

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
The buyers of Sargon's operating businesses have announced its new executive and board lineup and will rebrand it to Certes Corporation, leaving behind the Sargon brand. Former PEXA chief Marcus Price will move into the role of group chief executive ...

Profound uncertainty remains: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... unconventional monetary and fiscal support across the globe, aggregate demand remains subdued and is weighing on inflation, alongside lower commodity prices. Additionally, the world is starting to see a "striking divergence" of financial markets from ...

Chief economist update: The power of money (and a cure)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... whole trading days (June 11) since Wall Street suffered a big fall - the day US benchmark equity indices closed sharply lower: Dow (6.9%), S&P 500 (5. 9%), Nasdaq (5.3%), Russell 2000 (7.6%). Financial market wire and web services pointed the finger ...

ASIC warns funds to clean up adverts

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
... "corrective action", including culling old advertising, product disclosure statements and webpages comparing products to lower-risk products. The regulator also asked the seven responsible entities to clarify actual withdrawal terms, and freeze applications ...

ISA plays devil's advocate on SG

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
... analysis' motivations point out there are a number of channels by which increases in the SG can be funded, including lower wages, costs being borne by employers through a reduction in profits, by consumers through increases in prices and via lower ...