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Superannuation a mystery to students: survey

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
A new survey has revealed a "startling knowledge gap" in super, with close to half of Australian students knowing little to nothing about superannuation. Student Super's survey also found that 42% percent of the polled students were unsure about ...

Frontier Advisors builds investment team

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018
... investment analyst at Prime Value, where he covered Aussie large and small caps for five years. Before this he spent a decade at Standard and Poors, Navigator and Lincoln Indicators. Also joining the investment team are three associates. Paul Chua joins ...

Shareholders put NAB board in the hot seat

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
NAB executives were slammed for destroying shareholder value and for losing its lead as Australia's biggest bank by market capitalisation at its annual general meeting in Melbourne this morning. One shareholder during the question and answer session ...

Bonds reward equity investors seeking refuge

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... supportive of a return to a normal yield curve. "This is especially the case where the largest net buyer of bonds in the last decade has been the Chinese Government, and for a number of reasons that demand is likely to remain subdued," Cole said.

FTSE Russell expands ESG research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
FTSE Russell formed a global ESG research partnership with Sustainalytics, as investors demand ESG integration within their strategies. The partnership will allow the firm to develop a new set of ESG indexes, with Sustainalytics' ESG risk ratings research ...

Emerging markets must be long-term bet

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
... week, J.P. Morgan Asset Management upped its return forecast on emerging markets by 50 basis points to 8.5% over the next decade. The call is based on what the asset manager sees as further divergence between the economic cycles of emerging and developed ...

Chief economist update: Tariff man takes Wall Street down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
... flat fourth-quarter trading environment. "The first inversion of any portion of the Treasury yield curve in more than a decade awoke the specter of a recession," he said. Sure, they all add up. But if (and whenever) Wall Street does a rebound, opposing ...

Future Fund to manage new drought fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... and the Public Service Mathias Cormann said the fund will kick off with $3.9 billion and grow to $5 billion over the next decade. "From 1 July 2020, $100 million will be directed annually to fund a wide range of drought resilience projects, while the ...

Why indexing is big business

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... markets research Philip Lawlor says the role of the index provider is changing shape rapidly, particularly in the last decade. It's evolved from a "number cruncher" function to becoming more involved in investment strategy and a partnership-based ...

For-profit lobbying leads to $53bn problem: AIST

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees believes carve-outs in superannuation reform designed to benefit the for-profit super sector are posing big problems for Australia's retirement system. Latest research from the AIST and UTS corporate ...