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ASIC makes key appointments to executive team

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2024
... role of executive director enforcement and compliance. Soros will join ASIC from the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC), Australia's financial intelligence and anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regulator. ...

Super fund fees exploit Australians' low financial literacy

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2024
... the long-term savings they could achieve for their retirement, 72% said they'd consider switching to a lower-fee fund. Analysis by the Productivity Commission has shown that a lower-cost superannuation fund could save a typical full-time worker around ...

Best and worst performing ETFs revealed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2024
The best and worst performing Australian ETFs have been identified in new analysis by InvestSMART in its inaugural ETF Scorecard report. The report provides a ranking of ETFs based on their performance to 31 August 2024. The best performing ETF was ...

New shareholder, governance services firm enters market

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2024
... market." Stanghieri expertise spans across proxy solicitation, governance advisory, shareholder activism and registry analysis and vote forecasting.

RBA feels 'not enough has changed'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2024
... future productivity growth turned out to be weaker than assumed." The minutes revealed members also considered a formal analysis in which the economy's supply capacity was more limited than currently assumed. "In this case, the cash rate might need to ...

PineBridge brings flagship lifecycle fund down under

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2024
... research driven investment process and a risk management approach, PineBridge said. The firm differentiates companies' analysis based on their "lifecycles", rather than by sector or industry to provide a more consistent comparisons for like-for-like ...

Australians living through protracted period of economic misery: CEDA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2024
Australians are enduring the longest stretch of economic hardship since 2011, according to analysis by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA). CEDA's analysis of the "misery index" - which combines inflation, unemployment, and interest ...

Aussie female fund manager representation lags: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
... industry is run by women, lagging the global average of 12.5%, the latest Alpha Female Report finds. Citywire's annual analysis, which tracks the progress of gender parity in asset management, calculated 903 Australian fund managers in its database and ...

Northern Trust expands fixed income trading capability

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2024
... benefit from more seamless fixed income trading," he said. "With streamlined operations and trade flow, transaction cost analysis reporting and deep pools of liquidity, clients can have enhanced access to global fixed income securities." Northern Trust ...

Passive funds save $14.4bn in fees: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2024
The passive funds sector has saved investors $14.4 billion in fees for more than 25 years, according to a Vanguard analysis. While costs overall have decreased since 1998, Vanguard found the difference in management fees between active and index funds ...