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Iress steady amid OneVue integration

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021
... for the first half of 2021, in line with full year guidance. Pro forma net profit was up 9% and pro forma EPS was up 6% versus the prior comparative period," chief executive Andrew Walsh said. "The improved performance was driven by growth in trading ...

APRA issues guidance on lifecycle products for performance test

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2021
... product to get around the performance test. It also wants funds that have had multiple MySuper products to use actual returns versus blended returns of the products, clearly identifying the current product's predecessors. To be identified as the ...

Super fund portfolio disclosure consultation reopens

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2021
... be aggregated by the relevant institution; while infrastructure and property must be categorised into into directly held versus unitised and the percentage of direct ownership must be disclosed. Another proposal is removing the requirement to disclose ...

Economic recap: Week to August 13

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2021
... months score of plus 25 - with conditions falling in "all mainland states", led by NSW. Its components - trading (12 in July versus 32 in June); profitability (6 versus 25); employment (10 versus 18) - all weakened. This may not be the end of it for ...

Economic recap: Week to August 6

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2021
... month's 1.9% year-on-year gain. Similarly, real wages growth fell by 0.4% over the same period from 2.0% in May and versus expectations for a 1.2% increase. Less income equals reduced spending. June household spending dropped by 5.1% in the year ...

Vision Super seeds emerging market debt fund

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
... Wyrsch said. The fund also hedges 100% of the US dollar exposure while leaving active local currency exposures unhedged versus the Australian dollar. This results in investors benefiting from the Australian dollar's positive correlation with emerging ...

Economic recap: Week to July 30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
... learned how much consumer prices rose in the March quarter. Because of Australia's quarterly CPI reporting convention - versus monthly in most of its counterparts - we suspected and felt, but didn't know by how much, that the prices of consumer ...

Insurers dodging Royal Commission reform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
... problems we have seen in the add-on space for years - add-on products that provide poor coverage and are more expensive versus the broader coverage and cheaper products available in the direct insurance space". "These exemptions are just more of the ...

Vanguard lowers platform fees

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
... Gopal said. "For this reason, when we built the platform, we introduced it with features like a focus on portfolio value versus displaying short term percentage performance movements, and two factor authentication requirements to execute trades." Personal ...

Economic recap: Week to July 9

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
... non-manufacturing index to a reading of 60.1 in June from 64.0 in May. The report showed that non-manufacturing business activity (60.4 versus 66.2), new orders (62.1 versus 63.9) fell with employment dropping to 49.3 indicating contraction in June from ...