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Challenger launches new retirement tool

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
... impacts Australians' ability to understand the reality of their finances later in life. Challenger's behavioural research shows Australians hold various misconceptions about their retirement income, and still harbour barriers in speaking with ...

AMP Capital cuts fees on equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
... result in the fFund being more ethically active, such as in the area of fossil fuels, where we have conducted extensive research into how we can best support the United Nations Paris Climate Agreement with our investments," it said, adding that there ...

Few funds immune to ERS

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... House of Representatives standing committee on economics about low balance members accessing early release. Dean said ISA research had found about 5% of early release claims left account balances at $0 and it expects that number to go up as the scheme ...

Technical Services Forum: Testing risk tolerance

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... was highly correlated to whether or not they had a financial plan in place and have acted on it." Lowe said Challenger research, conducted in January this year, showed a significant majority of retirees are worried about outliving their retirement savings ...

Road to recovery

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... and many organisations will have to transform and develop new ways of doing business," Loades said. AusTTA points to research by BCG's Henderson Institute that suggests only 20-30% of 300 companies surveyed are putting in place plans to re-imagine their ...

Asset allocation in a post-pandemic world

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... opportunities for investors, with quality companies trading at a significant discount," he said. "It really does pay to do your research and stay on top of macroeconomic developments." Gary Wilson, senior consultant and member of JANA's portfolio construction ...

Behavioural tools to limit losses, fear

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... clients to avoid the common pitfalls that people might fall prey to." The decision sciences team focuses on three core research areas; the first of which is analysing what a perfectly rational decision maker would choose, to use as a benchmark. However ...

March ASX200 volatility worse than GFC

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... showed greater intraday volatility in March than it did during the peaks of the Global Financial Crisis, according to new research from Allan Gray. Nine trading days in March showed volatility above 10% for S&P/ASX 200, with seven of them being consecutive ...

Challenger hires retail distribution lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... lead wealth management distribution role had not yet been appointed. Challenger's general manager of national accounts, research and platforms Rommel Hacopian recently departed, joining Yarra Capital Management. His departure followed that of Vito D'Introno ...

Morningstar downgrades two Vanguard funds to neutral

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... identical unlisted strategy from 18 basis points to 16 basis points in July 2019," Morningstar analyst Edward Huynh said in a research note. "However, this version still retains its base fee of 75 basis points, and whilst that's still cheaper than ...