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APRA quashes super liquidity concerns

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
APRA has put to bed any rumour that superannuation funds are at risk of facing liquidity issues as a result of the government's decision to allow Australians early access to their superannuation. Appearing alongside ASIC before the Senate Select Committee ...

Calastone inks JP Morgan deal

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... head of product strategy and development Paul Przybylski said the Calastone deal would help the firm deliver the best in class experience it designed Morgan Money to provide. "Morgan Money has been designed to deliver a best in class customer experience ...

Iress inks bond exchange partnership

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
Financial services software provider Iress has partnered with the Australian Bond Exchange in a move designed to increase investors' access to bonds. A partnership between Iress and the Australian Bond Exchange will allow users of Iress software to ...

Equities attractive in search for yield: Zenith

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
Australian equities have not been immune to the effects of COVID-19, with company earnings taking a material hit, despite the equity market rallying from its lows in mid to late March, according to Zenith Investment Partners. Zenith said a flow on effect ...

The future is fast arriving: BlackRock

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
... the future is arriving fast. This has led us to change our long-term return expectations - and shift our strategic asset class preferences away from nominal government bonds and toward credit." Five-year returns are expected to be negative across developed ...

Government offers guidance provision relief

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
... uncertainty around companies' future prospects as a result of the crisis also exposes companies to the threat of opportunistic class actions for allegedly falling foul of their continuous disclosure obligations if their forecasts are found to be inaccurate," ...

Outsourced trading set to boom

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
As merger activity propels the size of some of the nation's super funds, outsourcing could emerge as the answer to cheaper, quicker and more scalable trading. According to State Street, outsourced trading can help super funds and asset managers ...

Balanced funds fundamentally flawed

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... destructive for those nearing retirement. "A weakness of traditional asset allocation approaches is the reliance upon asset class return forecasting and varying correlations in the build of a relatively poor risk management framework," he said. "[This] ...

IOOF settles class action

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
IOOF has settled one of the class actions brought against it on the back of the Royal Commission. The wealth group announced to the ASX this morning it has settled in the class action brought by Quinn Emanuel Urqhart & Sullivan in April 2019. The class ...

Switching prompts fund to alter allocations

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... return objectives, in the best interests of our members." Qantas Super widened the range of asset allocations for each asset class in each option by up to 10%. In its conservative option allocation to growth assets went from 20-40% to 15-45% while defensive ...