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MySuper approaches $650 billion

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
... benchmarks over the 10 years to 2017. If these members instead received the median return from the Productivity Commission's top-10 'best in show' MySuper model, "they would collectively be $1.3 billion a year better off." Rainmaker's ...

Parametric expands alternative risk premia offering

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
... California-based smart beta and asset allocation specialist to deliver a strategy for Australian institutional investors aiming to top the standard 'black box' hedge fund approach to investing. Systematic Alternative Risk Premia (SARP), also ...

Shaw and Partners shelves managed accounts partnership

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
... upper end of the $1.5-$2.3 million range it had announced previously. Its current cash holdings are about $4.8 million on top of the ASX bond term deposit of $1 million. MGP directors have also amped the current share buyback from five million shares ...

Chief economist update: Lessons from the last world trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
... wealthier or more productive by building walls?" Financial markets may have forgotten their history but from their comments, these top central bankers have not. Case in point, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act - enacted on 17 June 1930 - which increased the ...

J.P. Morgan expands Australian distribution

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
... intermediary communities by providing our clients with informed engagement and the best investment solutions is one of our top priorities," she said.

Priestley resigns from ASX, Future Fund boards

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2018
... about when he stepped down from his J.P. Morgan chief executive role last year. At that time he had held J.P. Morgan's top job in Australia for 15 years out of the total 23 years he spent with the investment bank. His other roles included J.P. Morgan's ...

New campaign combats elder financial abuse

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018
... online register and a designated safe place to report suspected abuse, she said. Bligh said the agreement by the nation's top lawmakers on June 8 to identify options to standardise Power of Attorney orders across the country is a significant step in ...

Advisers must tread carefully on PLS

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
... it opens another opportunity for clients to fund aged care needs using equity in their home - especially clients wanting to top-up home care, those that are waiting for a home care package to be allocated, or couples needing to increase cashflow when ...

Best-in-show funds pose pressing issues for advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
The Productivity Commission's proposed best-in-show list of the top 10 default superannuation products could have pressing implications for financial advisers which shouldn't be overlooked. According to Wealthdigital technical manager Rob Lavery, the ...

China A-shares to shake up EM funds

KARREN VERGARA AND DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
... that turn up in the cheapest quintile or 20% of its investment universe. "The index is very concentrated," she says, "and the top five names in the EM index now account for about 20% of the holdings and that includes these very highly valued internet ...