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Equities attractive in search for yield: Zenith

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
... yield for Australian equities has typically remained within a defined band of 5% to 7% p.a., with the exception of the Global Financial Crisis. "As observed during the GFC, dividend yields were artificially inflated by the fall in the price of the underlying ...

Ignorance isn't bliss in super: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... according to new research coming out of Russell Investments. Surveying more than 3000 Australians in January this year, the global investment firm found that two thirds of respondents believed their super funds would automatically de-risk to protect ...

Balanced funds fundamentally flawed

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... little wonder they were shocked in March at their portfolios' growth risk exposures," he said. "It happened during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and now we have had a repeat performance with the COVID-19 generated market turmoil in the first quarter ...

Super advocate takes FSC to task over TPD tests

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... seen their TPD coverage change from June 11, three months after the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 to be a global pandemic. As such, Loane said the initiative is designed to ease any concerns people may have with their TPD cover by ensuring ...

Merging super funds guaranteed tax relief

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
... make the tax relief permanent," Fahy said. However Loane warned that the bill's change to the definition of Significant Global Entities, which now include managed investments, will impose an "unnecessary tax compliance burden on Australia's managed funds". ...

Behavioural tools to limit losses, fear

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... investment decisions for long-term financial success. In a virtual conference held by Morningstar, the investment manager's global head of decision sciences Ryan Murphy said arming investors with the skills to limit behavioural biases can be especially ...

Investment manager launches income fund

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
A credit and alternative investment manager has launched its first Australian product; a global credit income fund set to provide investors with 3-4% in yield per annum. The strategic joint venture between global credit investment manager Ares Management ...

Death of dividends greatly exaggerated: Epoch

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... dividend income gained by investing globally." McIntyre added in uncertain times such as these, the diversification benefit of global equities becomes much clearer. "In a world starved for yield a portfolio of high quality global equities is a good place ...

Investors back corporate bonds as COVID-19 winner

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... at yield alone, at some point you're going to come unstuck." Diversification is equally important, he said, especially in times of crisis or negative shock. "It is one of the key risk management tools and building a yield or income focused portfolio ...

ERS shaves $4m off Raiz Super

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020
... stabilised in April 2020 with active (paying) customers increasing by 1.3% to more than 218,000," he said. "The better global market conditions saw our FUM increase by 8.9% to $404.62 million. But due to the COVID-19 early release of superannuation ...