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Advisers must prioritise Conflicts Priority Rule: AFCA

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2024
After assessing a large volume of Dixon Advisory complaints, the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) warned financial advisers of their responsibilities to manage conflicts of interest under the Conflicts Priority Rule. AFCA senior ombudsman ...

Aussies struggle with financial goals: Generation Life

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2024
Australians are finding it hard to achieve their financial goals because of inflation, the cost of living, and a complex investment landscape that's characterised by ongoing policy change, according to Generation Life research. While those with a financial ...

ETF winners and losers in September

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2024
VanEck has revealed last month's best and worst performing exchange-traded funds (ETFs), as the industry hits $220 billion. The highest returns came from the VanEck China New Economy ETF, which climbed 21.4%, followed by the iShares China Large-Cap ...

Under the hood of a top global fundie

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2024
Investment management firm GQG Partners has achieved extraordinary success across its core strategies - global equity, international equity, emerging markets equity, and US equity. All these strategies belong to an exclusive club of long-only active ...

Labor delivers another budget surplus, but productivity stalls

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
The final budget outcome for 2023/24 came in as a surplus of $15.8 billion - or 0.6% of GDP - for the underlying cash balance - an improvement of $6.5 billion on the previous estimates. The better-than-expected outcome was driven mainly by the payments ...

Fed cut will not move the dial for RBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
The US Federal Reserve delivered its first interest rate cut in four years, reducing the official cash rate by 50 basis points, but experts say the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is still not in a position to do the same. Yesterday's official unemployment ...

Federal Reserve kicks off easing cycle

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
The Federal Reserve elected to cut interest rates by 50 basis points overnight, its first reduction in four years. The US central bank decided to lower the target range for the federal funds rate by half a percentage point to 4.75-5%, surprising many ...

Advisers reveal hurdles preventing SMA adoption

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) head of model portfolios EMEA and APAC Kathleen Gallagher revealed the main concerns financial advisers have with employing managed accounts in their business, at the 2024 Financial Standard Managed Accounts Forum. ...

WAM tells investors it 'got the call wrong'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
Portfolio managers for the Wilson Asset Management (WAM) Leaders Fund, Matthew Haupt and John Ayoub, admitted they "got the call wrong" when they took a 4% stake in embattled Star Casino just last year. Now WAM is pushing for the casino operator to ...

Managers struggle to secure positive net flows in FY24

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2024
A minority of investment managers have had positive net flows over the past year, according to Rainmaker Information. Of the 158 investment managers tracked in the research house's managed funds database, only 62 saw net inflows, while 96 experienced ...