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How personality tests add value in advice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2019
... extremely irrational," she said. "There's already so much information you have to give an adviser though and this sounds pretty labour intensive for clients." Penn said it's important for advisers looking to integrate coaching into part of a ...

Leaving a legacy

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019
... Bennelong Funds Management started as an investor of private funds, that being our funds - the Chapman funds. It did a pretty good job of that so we were approached by some partners. We went from managing private funds to managing private and partnered ...

Investors deluded on returns

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2019
... is going to be very hard to get those kinds of returns," Doyle said. "It could turn from a virtuous to a vicious cycle pretty quickly." Durack cautioned that financial advisers are likely to find themselves on the front line when it comes to addressing ...

Treasury agreed with Grattan SG modelling

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2019
... also discussed Gallagher and Bonarius's analysis of Grattan's modelling. "ISA on Grattan. These criticisms look pretty specious based on my understanding of Grattan's numbers," an email said. Treasury concluded Grattan's modelling "broadly ...

Super trustees must do better: Byres

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2019
... measures and benchmarks, otherwise known as the regulator's previously flagged "traffic light" system. "Our goal here is pretty simple: to identify those trustees that, when looked at across a range of dimensions, do not seem to be delivering value-for-money ...

Merger costs may impact short-term returns: ASI

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2019
... Australian and global equities, we had a probable cost in terms of being out of the market and transacting of probably 20 bps-so pretty high," Edwards said on an ASI Panel looking at the investment implications of a superannuation fund merger. "So if ...

Climate policy more than divesting: UniSuper

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2019
... was in taking action. Divesting from fossil fuels, for example, just "passes the parcel". "The efficacy of divesting is pretty much zero," he said. Pearce recalled occasions where the fund brought renowned Australian climate scientist and Climate Council ...

Perpetual in acquisition mode

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2019
... and institutional investors retreated. "[We have] a very large appetite and are very keen to add global managers. We are pretty open-minded but with a set of criteria," Perpetual chief executive Rob Adams said. Perpetual Investments currently has $27 ...

Beware: Zombie ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019
... emphasise that these so-called zombie funds are not necessarily bad funds. But from our analysis of the network effect, it's pretty clear that they will have a hard time providing the benefits of the network effect to investors," he said. The research ...

Big banks forced to cut costs: Perennial Value

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2019
... and what can be done in the medium term." King anticipated that half-year results set to be released shortly will not be pretty: "There are going to be a lot of line terms and not much growth." Despite this, he remained positive this would be a transient ...