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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 ...

ETF flows up despite market underperformance

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
Exchange traded funds (ETFs) saw positive flows in August despite overall negative returns from Australian and international equities. Total net flows into ETFs in August 2015 were $360 million, about half the net flows that the sector had seen during ...

Super becoming the fifth estate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... reform because given the near 70% fall in the Transfield stock price over the past five years and its massive underperformance relative to the ASX index, divesting from such a stock should have been one of the least controversial investment decisions ...

Q1 earnings expectations get rub down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... dust. The Dow ended 0.3% down and the S&P 500 index up by 0.4% in the first three months of 2015 - a significant underperformance compared with the 16.0% surge in the Euro Stoxx 600 index, the Nikkei-225 index's 10.1% advance and the FTSE-100's 3.2% ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... ex-dividend on Monday, was the biggest drag on the bourse. "Bank ex-dividends are part of the explanation of today's underperformance - Westpac itself accounting for around thirteen-and-a-half points of the market's fall," Mr McCarthy said. Mr McCarthy ...

Third arrow, broken arrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
... basement rates and the Bank of Japan (BOJ) right in the midst of liquidity pumping. The Japanese stock market's underperformance to date could be due to the yen's renewed strength and/or growing doubts over the economy's outlook. After depreciating by ...

Capacity issues drive super funds in-house

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... a lot of increased activity in terms of internalisation is Australian equities. And because of the pronounced underperformance there is some interest on the small caps space, on maintaining allocations to small caps or to capitalise on valuations in ...

NAB Wealth flat as bank's profit rises 2%

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2013
... Standard that in the context of rising markets and improving investor confidence, this result probably indicates underperformance. "NAB Wealth has restructured and there will be ongoing replacement of key executives and some redundancies as well. We'd ...

Don't lump Asia Pacific in with EM fall

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
... must be highly selective with their regional asset allocation within the emerging markets universe as recent underperformance has highlighted diverse structural differences between the member economies. "Despite the worries surrounding the performance ...

Macquarie Dividend Run-Up fund launched

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013
... total returns. However, without thorough risk management and due diligence, this strategy can lead to substantial underperformance," said van der Westhuyzen. "The new fund gives investors access to MSI's experience, expertise and risk management strategies ...