Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 191 - 200 of 1721 results for "Performance of"

PM Capital appoints distribution director

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2022
... state sales manager for New South Wales and the ACT. "I am joining the PM Capital team amid the continued strong performance of all three of our strategies being the Global Companies Fund, the Australian Companies Fund and our Enhanced Yield Fund. I ...

Mercer identifies investment opportunities for 2023

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2022
... sensible rule of thumb for investors to consider. "Natural resource stocks provide such revenues, and - despite the performance of underlying commodities - are still arguably under loved given underserved global energy and materials demand," Mercer said. ...

Crescent Wealth responds to PDS error criticism

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2022
... its members, the fund's misreporting against RG97 has had no effect on account balances. Further, it said the performance of the fund hasn't changed because of the incorrect disclosure against the revised RG97 standards. However, Crescent Wealth ...

Religious carve outs for faith-based super funds are dead

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2022
... tests for MySuper products, goes against the purpose of these tests, to indiscriminately assess the investment performance of default super products," he said. "Jones' attempted carve out would have opened the floodgates to further supplementary ...

Super fund board renewals need work: APRA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2022
... identification and recruitment of skills and experience. Boards also need to rigorously review their effectiveness and the performance of directors, as well as ensure there is proactive succession planning being undertaken. "All these components are ...

'Our fears were warranted': Chant West proposes YFYS alternative

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2022
... outcomes, namely risk and return," Chant West said. Under its proposal, a fund's performance is compared with the performance of a SRP with the same volatility. For example, Fund A and Fund B both exhibit a volatility of returns of 6% per annum over ...

Global X launches copper miners ETF

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022
... The fund works by tracking the Solactive Global Copper Miners Total Return Index, which is designed to track the performance of companies that have or are expected to have significant exposure to the copper mining industry. Global X head of investment ...

Link Group offloads PEXA stake

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2022
... between 2-3x. Last week, Link Group chief executive and managing director Vivek Bhatia said: "We are proud of the performance of PEXA since our initial investment in 2011 and Link Group is pleased to have been part of its success as Australia's leading ...

Super fund with highest customer satisfaction named

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2022
... averages, and is higher than any point prior to 2021. Levine claimed the drop in customer satisfaction mirrors the performance of the ASX 200 which has declined over 15% from its peak. She added that the market faces a challenging environment going into ...

Jones progresses green finance standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2022
... capacity, the finance market and our capital markets must have a common set of standards around which we can assess the performance of business. "Unless our capital markets have a common language and a common set of standards, we are not going to get ...