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

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... drastically volatile markets, major funds have been hit time and time again. But, what about SMSFs? According to Rainmaker research, on average, 24% of a SMSFs aggregate funds under management is in cash, 17% is in property and 43% is in shares. Shares ...

Not the time to sell products

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... thinking? How are they feeling?'" Rady told Financial Standard. "When we built the first product, we did a lot of market research before we went in with a solution because we wanted to understand what the problem was. We've taken the same approach ...

Man Group hires from BlackRock

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... joining its Hong Kong team in 2011. Prior to that, Swan spent 17 years at J.P. Morgan in equity portfolio management and research roles. "We have been looking to expand our Asia offering for a number of years, but have been patient as we want to ensure ...

Ausbil promotes from within

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... occasions. Nicholas Condoleon, who has had a 14-year career at Ausbil so far has been promoted from head of equities research to co-portfolio manager for the Ausbil Active Sustainable Equity Fund. Condoleon will also retain his role as head of equities ...

Worse than the Great Depression: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... Australia's GDP will be -6.7% this year due to the effects of COVID-19. Gita Gopinath, economic counsellor and director of the research department at the IMF, said the pandemic has resulted in a collapse in activity that is unlike anything experienced ...

ASIC provides relief around early super access advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... advisers with assurance to continue providing quality advice, she added. Also commenting, Industry Super Australia head of research and campaigns Nick Coates: "This is a sensible and measured expansion of restrictions on intra-fund advice about the early ...

Trading platforms see record use

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... said there is "no doubt" investors see opportunities in the market, a point corroborated by recent Investment Trends research, which noted 26% of retail investors intend to increase their exposure to Australian equities in the next fortnight. Nabtrade ...

Asset values could drop to 2017 levels: MSCI

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... levels last seen in late 2017 as a result of recent out-of-cycle write downs on unlisted assets. New analysis by MSCI Research executive director Bryan Reid reveals the 10% drop in the asset values of several superannuation funds' unlisted property portfolios ...

Will COVID-19 kill the balanced option?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... fixed income, and then allocating infrastructure, alternative credit and property to 'defensives'." Rainmaker head of research Alex Dunnin agrees that terms like 'balanced' are so ambiguous that the issue of what a balanced option should look like becomes ...

Consumers looking for reassurance: MetLife

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
New research from MetLife shows Australian consumers are looking to financial institutions to alleviate anxiety during the current COVID-19 crisis, but more than half claim they haven't heard from their super fund. MetLife's COVID-19 Insights revealed ...