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Almost 2000 advisers gone so far in 2020

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... advisers leave the industry amid a time of flux for the sector. In January, the ASIC Financial Adviser Register showed 23,682 active advisers, but now the register shows 21,913 advisers. That's a difference of 1769 advisers - and the true number ...

Specialist platforms prosper in June quarter

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2020
HUB24 has reported record annual inflows of $4.95 billion for the 2020 financial year, which it says has been driven by clients ditching "incumbent platforms" for the specialist provider. Its funds under administration lifted 24% for the FY20 to hit ...

IFM pledges to kickstart COVID-19 recovery

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
... contractors to compete in bidding processes, which IFM claims will stimulate job creation and the construction sector. More active management of infrastructure projects with a long term equity partner, IFM said, could result in less risk to the taxpayer ...

Stimulus stutters amid record unemployment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
The government's announcement of the new JobTrainer package was met with calls to extend the existing JobSeeker and JobKeeper measures as devastating unemployment numbers were released. Unemployment has now hit 7.4%, the highest it has been in two decades ...

Top equities managers revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... returning 19% and 13% over the 12 months ending June. Mercer head of portfolio management in the Pacific Ronan McCabe said active managers with quality and growth biases outperformed their peers. "Quality characteristics such as companies focusing on ...

Growth outplays value: Frontier

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... outperform core and value managers in relative terms, although the difference was less significant than in the March quarter. "Active managers broadly provided an excess return over the benchmark for investors with cyclical stocks rallying and defensives ...

BlackRock offers update on dumping coal

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
BlackRock has offered its first major update on investment stewardship since it said it would dump thermal coal from active portfolios. The investment giant's voting efforts increased in 2020, with the number of company engagements increasing by 47% ...

Spaceship Super gets boost from Voyager

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
... growth, which Spaceship hopes will transform into growth for its superannuation fund. The product currently has about 75,000 active users, growing from about 45,000 at the start of this financial year. July alone has brought 5000 customers to Voyager. ...

QIC appoints general manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
... strategy and liquid alternatives the industry fund, where she built the liquid alternatives program, helped develop the active asset allocation and currency models and ran several strategic asset allocation reviews. She joined towards April end. In her ...

Chief economist update: Not easy easing restrictions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
... terms of total infections (3.5 million or 26% of the world total); new cases of infections (65,452); deaths (138,247); and, active cases (1.8 million). Rising cases of infection are being recorded notably in Florida, Arizona, California, and Texas. As ...