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No golden ticket for super funds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... intriguing possibility as a long-term equity-diversifier for some institutional portfolios, it does not seem to be a reliable short-term equity buffer for when markets get choppy." Traditional, though contested, theory dictates that the performance of ...

Pay cuts, dividend slashed as NAB raises capital

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... September 30, as will NAB's board of directors. The bank's executive leadership team has also decided to forego any short-term variable reward for the 2020 financial year. It comes as the group announces statutory net profits of $1.3 billion ...

Melbourne hedge fund quietly folds

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... backed by a family office is currently in the process of winding up. Qato Capital had three funds, in market neutral, long/short fund, and active share style. It was backed by single family office Larkfield Funds Management. It won a couple of awards ...

Boutique manager taps former Challenger executive

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... since July 2017. Around a year ago the firm launched its Darling Macro Fund, which aims to "dynamically allocate long and short exposure across many liquid markets" within equities, bonds, commodities and currencies.

Billionaires club rakes in cash amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... increase in America's wealth went to the country's 400 wealthiest households. "If this inequality isn't treated with both short and long-term tax reforms and oversight, America's 'pre-existing condition' of extreme inequality could overwhelm not only ...

Compliance worse than COVID-19

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... product providers will certainly add further to this cost and complexity." While the pandemic may be impacting advisers in the short term, the burden of compliance was here to stay, Anderson argued. "Is this having a greater impact than COVID-19?" He ...

The next big short

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
Late last year, before extreme weather events battered the world, before COVID-19, The Big Short 's Michael Burry said he had found the next bubble: passive investments. Now, with asset prices trembling in the face of the pandemic, could there still ...

Aussie ETF investors got oil bets wrong before crash

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
Australians last week poured $35 million in the country's only ETF tracking crude oil futures, and were stung hard when WTI May contracts slipped into negative territory in Monday's trading. BetaShares Crude Oil Index ETF (OOO) tracks an index ...

The blame game

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... times frames, may lead to detrimental impacts." Superannuation is a long-term investment for members, and Griffith said the short-term focus on performance is doing a disservice to the industry. "APRA's 'traffic light' approach can potentially result ...

Members begin to turn on industry funds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... customer satisfaction amid trying market conditions, reduced returns and ongoing uncertainty." Levine said that while the short term performance of industry funds was negative, long-term customer satisfaction levels had risen across the sector. "The ...