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Zurich launches new SMA

KRISTI CHENG  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2019
... personalised portfolios that put clients' needs first, while also delivering benefits in flexibility, tax-effectiveness, and a lower administration and compliance burden for the advice practice."

Time to reset member return expectations?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019
... headwinds prevailing, Rice Warner is concerned superannuation funds have made a rod for their back by not re-establishing lower return expectations in their communications with members. Since the GFC, the world has entered "very strange and uncharted ...

Values trump value for retail investors

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
... are more sought after than any other factor. The research also reveals more than half of Australian investors would accept lower financial returns if a company always acted ethically towards customers, employees and the community. While recent dividends ...

Chief economist update: Economy slows to decade low but still tops the pops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
... right mates! C for consumption. The stabilisation in the Australian property market (if it persists) plus the tax cuts plus lower interest rates plus still low unemployment (albeit, lacklustre wage growth) should strengthen household spending going forward. ...

Chief economist update: RBA not risking market disappointment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2019
... impact on international trade flows, in addition to the impact on business investment. Repeats that domestic growth has been lower-than-expected in H1 and that looking ahead, growth is expected to strengthen gradually. Notes support from low rates, income ...

Publisher slammed for Future Fund claim

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2019
... PPP's guide was low. "If investors had adopted the investment strategy in PPP's Guide, they were likely to have generated lower returns than the returns promoted in the Promo Letter and exposed investors to a greater level of risk than that adopted by ...

Melbourne boutique winds down funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2019
... $130 million is understood to be currently used. The funds had an 11-year track record of outperforming the benchmark with lower volatility, but were down for the financial year. The boutique was founded in 2008 as Optimal Funds Management but rebranded ...

Risk commissions must be retained: MetLife

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... life risk commissions would not stop them from receiving financial advice. Given the choice of paying an upfront fee and lower premiums or no fee and higher premiums, 75% survey respondents said they were willing to pay an upfront fee. However, the amount ...

Whitehelm launches infrastructure fund locally

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... defensive component of a balanced retail investor's portfolio". "The fund also offers greater risk diversification and a lower correlation to broad equity markets than most peer funds, with a low 0.6 beta to global stocks markets, and a high degree ...

CFS slashes trail commissions on some funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... result in 400 advisers losing an average of less than $350 each year in revenue, a CFS spokesperson said. The move will lower management costs for the investors in these funds by about the same amount. "[The changes are] to ensure consistency with remaining ...