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Parametric critiques Productivity Commission's final report

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
... research report. According to the firm, the PC missed an opportunity to highlight how super members retiring on after-tax returns are penalised by a system geared towards pre-tax investment. The firm's managing director of research in Australia Raewyn ...

Quirky SMSF investments unveiled

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2019
... with the aim of receiving regular income via flat monthly fees and fractional transaction fees have been disappointed as returns fell below expectations in recent years. "Quite often ATM investors sign a 10-year lease, which makes them pretty obsolete ...

Alternatives an antidote to volatility: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
... with lower volatility; Core complements, with assets such as hedge funds adding diversification through differentiated returns; and Return enhancers, with assets such as distressed credit and private equity seeking opportunistic returns. An allocation ...

SMSF returns not accurate in Productivity Commission report

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
... In July last year, Class made a submission to the PC saying APRA and ATO used different methodologies to calculate SMSF returns - as a result, the ATO's returns for the sector were systematically understated, the SMSF provider argued. These suggestions ...

MLC Centre goes on the market

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... announced plans to divest its share today, saying its successful repositioning of the MLC Centre has generated exceptional returns. Over the past five years, the income profile of the MLC Centre has been boosted by food court upgrades and a re-leasing ...

S&P launches new ASX small caps index

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... said that focusing on companies that have generated positive earnings has historically provided better long-term total returns with less volatility in global small-caps. "Extensive research on US small-cap benchmarks show indices that incorporate earnings ...

Poor equities performance sees MySuper suffer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
The average returns for MySuper products dropped to 1.9% in the 12 months to November 2018. This was a fall of a further 1.1 percentage points from the 12-month average return seen at the end of October, analysis from Rainmaker shows. The low returns ...

International equities rule Aussie ETFs: Vanguard

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... issuers and rising trading volumes that have in turn driven down the cost to invest, allowing investors to keep more of the returns they earn." The firm became the leading ETF issuer in Australia in 2018, and enjoyed the highest net new cash flow of ...

Finalists unveiled for FS Investment Leadership Awards

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... Fund Ironbark Paladin Property Securities Fund UBS Property Securities Fund Zurich Australian Property Securities REAL RETURNS Aberdeen Standard Multi-Asset Real Return Fund Perpetual Diversified Real Return Fund - Class W PIMCO Global RealReturn Fund ...

Best in show, but for how long?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... were the key metric used to determine which MySuper products are shortlisted, latest Rainmaker analysis of three-year returns - as at November 2018 - shows the top 10 would comprise nine industry funds and just one retail fund. Hostplus, Cbus, AustralianSuper ...