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Future Fund posts negative year, cashes up

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020
... 15-year life and comes against a backdrop of COVID-19 shutdowns. The last time was FY09 when it returned -5.1%. FY20 performance is significantly below the benchmark return of 6.1% but longer term, the sovereign wealth fund remains above it with 9.2% ...

Industry funds triumph July performance

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020
... Rainmaker Information. UniSuper's default balanced option ranked first in Rainmaker's top 50 personal default super performance and workplace default performance over three years, returning 7.1% followed by AustralianSuper at 6.8%. In the personal category ...

Market rebound leaves behind active managers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
Even with the share market soaring back to pre-COVID-19 highs, active fund managers continue to struggle with performance and profitability, Deloitte analysis shows. Median revenue for asset managers that invest in publicly traded shares and bonds fell ...

NPS buffers COVID-19 shocks

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... rebounded to positive territory at the end of June as a result of its diversification and risk management strategies. The performance of its alternative investments was mostly driven by interest and dividend income, as well as foreign currency translation ...

Argo Infrastructure posts $9.3m loss, but increases dividends

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020
... more than 23% in the March quarter, the portfolio fell by just 6.5%, assisted by a drop in the Australian dollar. The performance of infrastructure assets varied considerably, Argo said, with some sectors harder hit by social distancing measures than ...

Evans Dixon reports $30.5m loss

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020
... estate fund. Evans Dixon's net revenue for FY20 was down 10% to $191.8 million, which it attributed to softer performance in E&P and funds management as well as the impact of changes after operational review. The $30.5 million statutory loss included ...

APRA expands super data collection

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020
... should already be using this type of data to help them fulfil existing regulatory requirements, such as their Business Performance Review and legislated outcomes assessment," she said. "If not, it would seem unlikely that they could truly understand ...

No bonus again for Platinum's Clifford

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
... Management with investment returns for our flagship Platinum International Fund overshadowing some strong investment performance in other areas, most notably our Asia ex-Japan and International Health Care focused strategies," the annual report reads. ...

Is your CEO smart or just lucky?

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
... CEOs. Al-Sabah said while economic theory predicts that boards filter out luck (defined by him as exogenous shocks to performance, such as market-wide conditions that are outside of the chief executive's control) from performance, the reality is ...

Household debt a major risk: RBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
... excessive leverage," it said. "Household borrowing is a large share of banks' assets and so is important for their performance, but overall high lending standards, low loan-to-valuation ratios and banks' high level of capital mean they are highly resilient ...