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GAM records $19bn in outflows

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2020
... manager saw its profits fall 196% following net outflows of close to $19 billion in the first half of this year, resulting in heavy hits to fee and commission income. GAM has reported a pre-tax loss of $3.05 million compared to a profit of $3.21 million ...

Investment strategies need to change: GSFM

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... policy is exhausted and is no longer an appropriate tool to deal with these challenges. Fiscal policy will need to do the heavy lifting but it needs to be intelligently crafted." Miller said the world has hit an inflection point when it comes to policy ...

APRA intervention blindsided AFA, FPA taskforce

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... December 2019, APRA intervened to improve the sustainability of individual disability income insurance in response to ongoing heavy losses. APRA said at the time that life companies had collectively lost about $3.4 billion in five years through the sale ...

AustralianSuper partners with greenhouse gas giants

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
... chief executive Anna Skarbek. "Globally, many countries and businesses are already moving to decarbonise supply chains in heavy industry sectors. There are huge opportunities for Australian businesses if they take a proactive approach to getting into ...

Property winners, losers of COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2020
... However, we are also looking further into areas such as life sciences, bio-medical and industrial cold storage." Despite the heavy sell off in REITs in March and several macro forces still at play, Everett believes there are still opportunities for the ...

State Street warns of dot-com parallels

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
State Street Global Advisors has warned the current rally in equities markets parallels that of the dot-com boom, as price to earnings multiples continue to expand. Since the March 23 low, the ASX All Technology Index, which features the likes of buy-now-pay-later ...

Spaceship Super gets boost from Voyager

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
... from managing $180 million around last May to about $300 million now. Returns have helped on the way, with its equities-heavy GrowthX option returning 14.77% over the year ending May. Moore says Spaceship has the no immediate plans to pursue an RSE license ...

APRA funds can learn from SMSFs: Rice Warner

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... and at a price which members will pay," it said. "The problem facing funds is the cost of delivery of this service and the heavy compliance risks. These costs usually exceed any revenue from the service which means they are subsidised by other members." ...

The secret to neutralising sequencing risk

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
... significant losses at a time when they need their savings the most. "While some investors have decades to ride out volatility and heavy capital losses, investors nearing and in retirement are not among them," director Tom Rachcoff said. "They need to ...

Sustainable dividend stocks offer yield opportunities: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020
... noted that as of mid-May, the S&P 500 was up 31% since its trough, and in-line with September 2019 levels, while the tech-heavy NASDAQ index was up 7% for the year. "This is all rather eye popping when one considers the current macro-economic backdrop," ...