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Vanguard launches three new active funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2019
... fund. Both funds are available as wholesale, unlisted unit trusts. They opened to investors today. The company also has a third fund on the way, the Vanguard Active Global Credit Bond Fund will be managed by Vanguard's Fixed Income Group and open ...

Vote in the FS Power50 now

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
... financial advisers or those who have influenced the financial planning industry but now work at a fund manager, insurer or third-party service provider have been excluded by Financial Standard. The Association of Financial Advisers and the Financial ...

Chief economist update: Economy slows to decade low but still tops the pops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
... quarterly growth rate of 2.0% divided by 4). To be sure, these are all dated figures - we're nearly at the end of the third quarter of 2019 - but forward indications from the major components of GDP (C+I+G+X-M) suggest, we'll be right mates! ...

ANZ/OnePath worst performer again

KRISTI CHENG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2019
... funds, up from three last year. Taking out second place is Perpetual with four fat cat funds, MLC and Zurich came in joint third with three each. In its annual report, robo-advice service Stockspot analysed 600 of the largest superannuation funds in ...

Merger costs may impact short-term returns: ASI

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2019
... off." Tasplan recouped the costs in less than two years - or 20 months. Eventually, the fee charged to members fell by a third. She said the merger costs on the investment side can be higher if the two funds have more pooled investment structures (which ...

Intra-fund advice must improve: Rice Warner

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2019
... advice models reducing the marginal cost of providing advice are also achievable. Yet, Rice Warner pointed out around a third of super funds still do not have a super projection calculator on their public website. "Of the funds that do, about one fifth ...

Chief economist update: Super Mario's last hurrah

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
... markets." "Incoming economic data and survey information continue to point to somewhat slower growth in the second and the third quarters of this year. "Inflationary pressures remain muted and indicators of inflation expectations have declined." When ...

Chief economist update: The fear of Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... contracted by 0.2% in the June 2019 quarter, but so has Germany (-0.1%) - the EU's biggest economy - and Italy's - the third biggest economy -- has stalled. The Eurozone's GDP growth, itself, has decelerated from 0.4% in the first quarter ...

REP 515 divides advice community

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2019
... Anderson asked delegates whether they were experiencing the pain of ASIC's Report 515, released in March 2017. About a third of the advisers in the room raised their hand. He then asked how many people in the crowd had never heard of 515 - about ...

Pension fund joins action against Facebook

KRISTI CHENG  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2019
... and we expect that of any corporation within which we invest." A derivative lawsuit is brought by shareholders against a third party on behalf of a corporation to remedy harm done to the corporation. Often, the third party is an insider of the corporation ...