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Rate rise exposes adviser knowledge gap

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2022
... air of complacency surrounding the situation. "Most are completely underprepared for what's coming and seem to prefer passive reassurance that all will be okay than preparing proactively for the inevitable," he says. "It is difficult but necessary to ...

LGIAsuper reduces fees, adds indexed option

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2022
... admin fee of 0.18%. On a $50,000 balance, a member would pay $140. Rainmaker Information's most recent fee study found passive options offered by super funds charge an average of 0.12%. LGIAsuper said the ability to broaden the menu is the result of ...

Millennial super fund fails to GROW

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2022
... to a younger membership base and employing an active strategy where other disruptors based their offering on low-cost, passive solutions. As other 'millennial' funds failed to gain ground and ultimately closed, like Zuper and GigSuper, GROW Super ...

YFYS changed how funds invest: JPMAM

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2022
... miss out on higher returns by favouring more conservative, benchmark-hugging strategies in response to YFYS. "Although passive investing is known as an economical way to have market exposure while maintaining reasonable risk diversification, it also ...

Government vows support for SMEs, self-funded retirees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2022
... delivering $1.85 billion in cash flow support for 2.3 million small to medium businesses, sole traders and individuals with passive income (including some self-funded retirees) that are eligible to use the instalment amount method," Frydenberg said. ...

ETF investors soar to 1.7m

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2022
Retail investors continue to flock to passive strategies as new research shows the number of users soared to a new high of 1.7 million. Investment Trends estimated a 33% rise in the number of users of exchange-traded products during 2021, while a further ...

Schroders launches new fund, wins mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2022
... disclosed. "The fund leverages Schroders' global investment platform with targeted allocations to a broad array of active and passive strategies using Schroders' global specialist teams across equities, fixed income and alternatives," the fund manager ...

Vanguard suspends trading in Russian securities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... Vanguard has suspended the purchasing of Russian securities from all its actively managed funds and is also working to divest passive holdings. In a statement, Vanguard said its total exposure to Russia only accounts for about 0.01% of client assets ...

ESG funding booms in Australia: Calastone

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2022
... all the ESG equity cash invested by Australians (98%) went into actively managed funds in 2021, with Calastone saying passive strategies will struggle to gain ground until ESG standards are established. Additionally, the index found that $4 in every ...

Biggest ever super merger completes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2022
... extract skill, because then you are paying for index-like returns," he explained. "So, we've had fairly substantial passive in our equities holdings and QSuper has been almost exclusively passive." The funds also share having lifecycle strategies ...