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Insurers must shape up on mental health: TAL

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020
... said. While high cholesterol is a known risk for heart attack, for example, medical professionals do not have similar metrics to predict mental health conditions. This could have consequences for the life insurance industry. For example, financial hardship ...

APRA, ASIC release life insurance stats

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... has been updated with the latest data. The tool compares insurers across cover types and distribution channels on four metrics - the percentage of claims accepted, the length of time taken to pay claims, the number of disputes and the policy cancellation ...

Chief economist update: As luck would have it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020
... a 40,000 drop in employment in August and the unemployment rate rising to 7.7%. Wait, there's more. Using the same metrics used in the US and Canada, the ABS estimates Australia's unemployment rate falling to 7.3% in August from 7.8% in the previous ...

Super fund overhauls performance on red rating

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
... products were criticised for their unsatisfactory investment performance and relatively high fees based on APRA's heatmap metrics. Maritime Super, LUCRF Super, and several BT Funds Management products such as Asgard's Employee MySuper, BT Super ...

Boutique launches Aussie equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
... strong balance sheet and capital management potential, which are currently being undervalued on traditional earnings-based metrics. Lastly, yielders (Suncorp, BHP) are companies that have little growth but have good valuations and sustainable cash-backed ...

Credit Suisse names preferred investment options

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
... attract strong inflows," it said. "Weak markets in the last half generally resulted in a deterioration in profitability metrics despite a slowing rate of decline in management fee margin contraction, higher performance fee margins and general efforts ...

CFA Institute call for feedback on new standard

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2020
... is for investors that aim to invest in companies and issuers that perform better than peers on one or more performance metrics related to ESG matters. In addition, CFA Institute has included ESG-related thematic focus which is defined as aiming to invest ...

Global fund manager enters Australian market

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
... seeking." Ivka Kalus, Promethos chief investment officer, believes Australian investors align to the firm's values on ESG metrics. "Our investment process ensures that we stay true to client values while seeking to generate market-beating returns ...

Northern Trust launches ESG capability

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020
... be used to "gain fund-level oversight of environmental risks and drill-down to compare key scores and carbon footprint metrics across individual managers, portfolios, countries or sectors," Northern Trust said. The categories can also help asset owners ...

MySuper portfolio winners, losers revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2020
... coming in at 0.3. Although skewness and kurtosis are not "household concepts", Dyall argues it is important to use these metrics to help identify how funds manage investment risk. "The most recent three years shows that funds with outliers of these parameters ...