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RBA, CBA, NAB partner for wholesale currency

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2020
... syndicated loan on an Ethereum-based DLT platform for wholesale participants and the implications of 'atomic' delivery-versus-payment settlement on a DLT platform. CBA's group executive for institutional banking and markets Andrew Hinchliff ...

Frontier Advisors eyes international clients

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2020
... implementing, Polson says. In superannuation, Frontier is working on a retirement income solution, again as an adviser versus a product manufacturer. And it has been investing in a technology platform that now accounts for 12% of its revenue, according ...

Risk but no reward in institutional equities portfolios

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... startling discovery to us was the fact that, on average, portfolios had nearly two times the amount of uncompensated risk versus compensated risk," Northern Trust Asset Management head of quantitative strategies Michael Hunstad said. "For investors ...

Through good and bad: Advisers add value

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... someone with an investment balance of $250,000, selling to cash on March 16 would have locked in losses of more than $50,000 versus a member with the same balance who stayed invested during the volatility, recovering almost $20,000 already by the end ...

Level premiums to remain

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... future of level premiums is thinking about how it works in the whole ecosystem and against best interest duty, price now versus price later and affordability.

Chief economist update: Get shorty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... contain what was then a fast depreciating Chinese yuan. It's now working to restrain the currency's move higher versus the US dollar, which has appreciated by 3.4% this year to date and by 6.2% from the 2020 low of CNY7.1542/US$ recorded in late ...

MySuper funds redeem performance

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
... points. In the month of August however, default retail funds edged out NFP funds according to Rainmaker's index: 2.1% versus 1.7%. The research house named Vision Super as the top-performing MySuper product based on a single strategy. Its Super Saver ...

ETFs undermine product comparison: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... acronyms", as well as investors who are more advanced. This involves educating about the differences in: structures; a physical versus a synthetic ETF; full representation versus sampling; and the role of a market and authorised participant. "We are ...

Active manager performance slumps: SPIVA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... latest SPIVA scorecard. S&P Dow Jones Indices' SPIVA scorecard, touted as the "de facto scorekeeper of the ongoing active versus passive debate", exposed performance issues over the long and short term as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Between January ...

Real opportunity for super funds in private assets: Schroders

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020
... levels of the Australian private debt market when COVID-19 hit Australian shores. "Superannuation funds have a big benefit versus banks and insurance companies in that they don't have to worry about regulatory capital," Smith said. "The banks have ...