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The five threats to super fund survival

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... the needs of their members. The firm also believes that while large super funds will continue to emerge, the benefits of scale which they realise will come along much later than usual. While Australia's first mega-fund - of around $200 billion in funds ...

Regal Atlantic fund down 58.6%

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... "While we had been wary of the growing infection rates of the COVID-19 virus internationally, we underestimated the speed and scale in which the pandemic would ultimately take hold and the subsequent impact this would have on asset prices globally. "As ...

Former ASIC lawyer joins private firm

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... both the contentious and non-contentious sides of the financial regulation spectrum," the law firm said. "Having run large-scale and complex enforcement investigations for ASIC and, more recently, acted on behalf of private clients in response to such ...

Advisers adapt as crisis unfolds

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... Royal Commission. These pressures saw the country's advisers increasingly embrace technology and innovative solutions to scale up their businesses. In a survey of 177 authorised representatives and self-licensed advisers, Centrepoint Alliance found that ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... for global growth this year, with its economic counsellor and director of research Gita Gopinath confirming the monstrous scale of the pandemic's teeth. "We project global growth in 2020 to fall to -3%. This is a downgrade of 6.3 percentage points ...

IOOF trims operations

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... ourselves to deliver better outcomes for clients and members," Mota said in March. "The recent increase in our size and scale through the Pensions and Investments acquisition has improved our ability to invest in and deliver market leading solutions ...

How wealth management must respond to COVID-19

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... suggested through a survey of 21 private banks active in Hong Kong and Singapore," McKinsey said. "This indicates a need for scale which may become more prominent in these challenging times." The crisis will be easier to ride out for some than others ...

What's next for income-focused funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... couple of funds, while most funds in the category lean on dividends. "Whole equities market is going to be hurt by dividend scale backs, but income-focused funds will be hurt a little more. Balance sheet strength should be front of the mind for new allocations," ...

Will COVID-19 kill the balanced option?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... centre. "The people who can least afford it are actually those with the biggest need, how are we going to serve them at scale AND provide quality advice to them? This is an intractable problem at the moment," Geffin said. "I think the attitude prior ...

BlackRock bullish on China

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... implies higher wages and spending," they said. "We also see a boost in healthcare from domestic spending and manufacturing scale and efficiencies in time to market." Whether it is healthcare, consumer, or internet-related areas, the market caps of many ...