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Challenger boutique winds up fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2020
... Last Friday, investors in the Kinetic Emerging Companies Fund were notified of the retail fund's termination. Annual reports show the fund had $11.5 million in net assets at June 2018. A year later, assets had tumbled to about $3.3 million. After a major ...

Link's superannuation arm takes a hit

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2020
Link's retirement and superannuation solutions business took a hit in the first half of the year, as client losses and regulatory reforms impacted the segment. Reporting its half yearly results to the market today, administration and services giant ...

ASIC turns up the heat on enforcement

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2020
... ASIC is continuing to increase its efforts to chasten large institutions for misconduct, latest enforcement activity numbers show. In its latest six monthly report into its enforcement and regulatory work, ASIC has revealed a 52% increase in enforcement ...

Super funds snub millions of Aussies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2020
Australia's superannuation funds are the worst offenders when it comes to meeting the needs of the over five million Australians who do not speak English at home, according to new research. A survey conducted by LanguageLoop found that 81% of respondents ...

ISA takes swipe at Grattan

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2020
Industry Super Australia (ISA) claims an increase in the super guarantee to 12% will increase consumption at a whole adult life level, as it takes a swipe at alternate modelling. In its submission to the Retirement Income Review (RIR), ISA said its ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street sneezes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2020
It may have started in China and is infecting its way around the planet but the coronavirus hadn't had much impact on equity markets until it hit investor sentiment on Wall Street. Five straight down days have taken returns on the S&P 500 index ...

Remain liquid, defensive and patient: Schroders

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
While the market focus has moved on from the woes of 2019, investors in 2020 and facing similar global risks, according to Mihkel Kase, portfolio manager - fixed income at Schroders. Kase said the concerns investors faced in 2019 - think trade war and ...

EM debt relatively unscathed by virus: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
New research shows emerging markets debt has been relatively unscathed by the coronavirus so far. But risk still remains. Eaton Vance's (EM) debt team said the positive news has been driven by the expectation that the impact on growth will be temporary ...

Higher super contributions make Aussies feel safer

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... had an important role to play in encouraging Australians to start thinking about their retirement from an earlier age, and "show them how a small increase in their super contributions can make a significant difference". The research also shows that while ...

Chief economist update: Who's afraid of COVID-19?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... mortal and financial - given the virus' seemingly exponential spread. The latest World Health Organisation (WHO) data show that there are now 79,331 confirmed cases of infections (97.4% in China) across 29 countries with 2595 dead. You call that ...