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Market pain to continue: State Street

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... relative to fixed income/cash as we materially de-risked the portfolio mitigating the negative returns seen in markets. "Performance wise, although we maintained diversified exposures across equities, fixed income and alternatives the fund delivered ...

Why COVID-19 could boost ESG

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... with stronger ESG scores have outperformed. In analysing 2689 companies, Fidelity found a positive correlation market performance and ESG scores. Each ESG rating level was worth around 2.8% of stock performance versus the index during pandemic, Fidelity ...

Ironbark fund rating under review

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... fund from Ironbark has been put under review at Morningstar as the ratings house waits for clarity on March quarter performance. The Ironbark LHP Diversified Investments invests in 25 to 50 sub-managers of alternative strategies to build a portfolio ...

AMP Capital shutters global equities fund for platform investors

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... Investment Management Australia and had the highest sector weights to information technology and healthcare stocks. Recent performance for the platform class has been better than the MSCI World Index (Net Dividends Reinvested) in Australian dollar te ...

Regal Atlantic fund down 58.6%

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... affected markets. The fund has posted 23.1% in net annualised returns since its inception about 16 years ago. But performance has struggled during the COVID-19 crisis. The Atlantic Absolute Return fund has now lost 70.3% of its assets since the start ...

CBA Group Super posts -7.7% returns for March quarter

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... sharp downfalls and volatility in the sharemarket. "This resilience to volatility is demonstrated when comparing the performance of our Balanced (MySuper) option to major sharemarkets over the three-month period from 1 January to 31 March 2020. The Australian ...

APRA-regulated fund or SMSF: It's all the same

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... different ways." While the ATO has repeatedly warned that superannuation is, in many cases, safer with a fund, SMSF performance has been relatively equal to that of the major funds during this crisis. The figures indicate that during a crisis, having ...

Global markets bleed red

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... -8.7% year-on-year may not be the worst to come, expecting the US lockdown that cut through April to further dent performance." New York data also severely disappointed, she said. "This corresponds to the tune from the latest IMF update looking at a ...

ASIC demands compliance despite COVID-19

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... framework in-line when working from home, after control failures led a betting agency to open a market covering the performance of the S&P/ASX 200 index. ASIC has publicly chided Sportsbet, after the giant bookmaker was stung by the regulator for opening ...

GAM cuts jobs, reviews pay

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... minimised during the difficult COVID-19 environment," GAM said. The manager will also continue to align bonuses to company performance and investment teams will continue to benefit from existing contractual compensation arrangements, GAM said. GAM said ...