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Bentley slams Keybridge response to restructure proposal

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2016
... connected to Orion Equities and West Australian lawyer and entrepreneur Farooq Khan. Moffat went on to compare the underperformance of Khan Group subsidiaries, including Bentley Capital, Queste Communications and Orion Equities, to Keybridge Capital ...

AMP Capital urges voters to keep China fund open ahead of EGM

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016
... EGM. LIM, which is currently the third largest unitholder in the AGF, cited "significant problems, including underperformance against its benchmark index, persistent and excessive discount relative to net asset value, inadequate measures implemented ...

Concerns about EM unwarranted: William Blair

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2016
... self-authored white paper, William Blair portfolio manager of emerging markets strategies Todd McClone explains the underperformance of emerging markets is making investors nervous but an understanding of situations that threaten the sector will help ...

Super fund asset class performance disappoints

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2016
... investment strategies of some super funds are. The headline result of the research is that there is significant underperformance of asset class specific options versus their benchmarks. The level of underperformance varies greatly between asset classes ...

Higher recession risk creates opportunity in large miners: Lazard

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... specialist. "Eventually something will go wrong. Economies don't grow forever." Hofflin also highlights the lengthy underperformance of the value investment style since the global financial crisis, explaining that the style tends to be less effective ...

Lifestage funds outperform early

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2016
... older age cohorts underperform single strategy funds as the asset mix moves to being more conservative. This underperformance is 1.2% for 60 years plus or three times the younger person uplift. Rainmaker also found that between the ends of the age spectrum ...

Super governance at top of APRA agenda

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... life insurance, APRA is conducting stress testing with a focus on "prudential soundness" following period of underperformance in the industry. "There has clearly been a gap between community expectation and industry practice that needs to be closed," ...

Productivity Commission should focus on Choice underperformance: AIST

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2016
... chief executive Tom Garcia has said that the Productivity Commission Review of superannuation should focus on the underperformance of funds in the Choice sector. Specifically, Garcia recommended that the review should examine Choice fund fees and "opaque ...

ASX jumps "despite" naughty news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... international investors to carefully trawl Australian opportunities and not to sell, but to buy, especially after the underperformance of the Australian sharemarket over recent months," said Altair Asset Management chief economist Stephen Roberts. William ...

Retail super members gouged by $7.1bn: ISA

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2015
... for-profit sector which must reconcile the competing interests of fund members and shareholders. The persistent underperformance of these funds reveals it is members who are losing out." Using an APRA analysis published in 2010 which compared the prices ...