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Where UniSuper sees market opportunities

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 31 DEC 2018
... the gap, he said. "We have typically done all our exposures to fixed interest and debt via funds. At this stage we are pretty happy to do it that way and it is a more efficient way for us to get access to that type of exposure," he added. Building the ...

Bonds reward equity investors seeking refuge

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... the market view that short-end rates will have to be cut in the future due to weakening economic conditions, so it has a pretty good record in this regard." From Morgans financial planner and stockbroker Stephen Cole' point of view, the market appears ...

Emerging markets must be long-term bet

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
... frameworks don't capture factors such as illiquidity risk. Bilton said mean reversion frameworks have serviced investors pretty well as a tool "in the past 50 to 70 years but they're not the only thing we should consider." JPMAM global market strategist ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... for investors. "Secondly, investors can't afford to give away returns to fees or bid-ask spreads in what is already a pretty low-return environment," he says. Government bonds are a good example of duration, while short-dated corporate bonds have ...

SMSFs: Who, what, where, when and how

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2018
... "We'll probably take 55,000 disputes in the first year but [AFCA chair] Helen Coonan wants to put us out of business. I'd be pretty confident that advisers share that objective," she said.

Chief economist update: US bond yield jump made FTSE slump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2018
... appropriate to return inflation sustainably to the 2% target at a conventional horizon." No problem. The FTSE 100 index pretty soon got over that, rallying by as much as 3.2% from that day through to September 27, perhaps taking solace in the BOE's ...

Glut of underperformance in managed funds: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2018
... 1.74%. InvestSMART chief executive Ron Hodge said fees were the most important part of any performance equation. "It is pretty well known in the industry that over the longer term, most fund managers will underperform their benchmark by the cost of their ...

Finding value in Fairfax

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2018
... interest-only. "That's a lot of people waking up to much larger mortgage repayments in the coming years and that paints a pretty bearish picture for the banks and we have a short position on a number of them," he said.

We have won the battle, not the war: AustralianSuper CEO

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2018
... legislative reform to the default system, than it must be considered a success. "If that's the objective, it's a pretty binary view. To date, it's been successful," Silk said. "It's a battle that's been won, not the war." Silk added ...

Lose grandfathered commissions, lose business: MLC

KARREN VERGARA AND JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
... members in these old products are actually being actively advised and there is plenty of evidence to support that. It's pretty clear that many would not be where they are if they were being actively advised." Carter claimed he had no reason to believe ...