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BlackRock turns optimistic on credit

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... purchases of corporate debt -provide a favorable backdrop. Developed market central bank actions should pave the way for lower volatility in interest rates, providing a stable environment for credit spreads to narrow," Boivin said in the note. "The risk ...

State Street model portfolios land on BT Panorama

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... Trends 2020 Managed Accounts Report highlighted the ongoing growth of managed accounts, particularly among advisers with lower-balance clients. According to the report, the number of financial planners who recommended managed accounts has doubled in ...

Westpac flags $2.2bn impairment

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... basis points in 1H19. It's largely due to significant changes to base case economic forecasts linked to COVID-19, like lower economic growth and higher unemployment, and increasing the weighting applied to the downside economic scenario and the likelihood ...

A case for flexible asset allocation: First Sentier

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... multi-asset products, the fund takes a dynamic approach to its asset allocation, constructed to produce "real returns" with lower volatility and shallower drawdowns than a typical diversified or equities portfolio. Currently, the multi-asset fund is ...

Pay cuts, dividend slashed as NAB raises capital

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... fixed price of $14.15 per share and a non-underwritten share purchase plan of about $500 million. The SPP shares will be the lower of the $14.15 per share placement price and the volume weighted average price of NAB shares traded on the ASX in the five ...

ASX ups capital raise capacity

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... follow-on accelerated pro rata entitlement offer or a placement followed by a share purchase plan (SPP) offer at the same or a lower price than the placement. "This is so that retail shareholders get to participate in the overall capital raising at a ...

The next big short

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... Investment Management Group Asia Pacific head of investments, Dan Reyes, told Financial Standard it's passive strategies' lower price points that has seen their popularity soar. "Investors are waking up to the notion that costs really matter," ...

Aussie ETF investors got oil bets wrong before crash

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... will continue to reflect the one-month contract), BetaShares considers that the longer-dated future contract should have lower volatility, and that exposure to it should reduce the risk of the fund and unitholders experiencing a permanent loss of capital," ...

The blame game

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... for. "Even with a hypothetical industry of only four mega funds, there will be one in the upper quartile and one in the lower quartile," he said. "There are limits to killing the bottom quartile, and you may create a system that achieves "mega scale" ...

Has COVID-19 solved the advice problem?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... a style of working which may open the door for it to deliver a new low-cost advice model designed to serve clients with lower balances. Five weeks on from making the call to transition its 350-strong team to full work-from-home arrangements, Shadforth ...