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Blue Sky funds downgraded after profit revisions

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
... Blue Sky funds have been rated "unapproved" and "low investment grade" by SQM Research after the manager conceded it had fallen short of shareholder expectations. Blue Sky's Alternatives Access Fund was downgraded to 3.25 stars and recommended as unsuitable ...

Blue Sky falls short of disclosure expectations

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
Following on from the opinion article by Glaucus Research, Blue Sky chair John Kain said the company has fallen short of shareholder and market expectations around transparency and disclosure. As a result of this, Kain said Blue Sky is now commissioning ...

Advisers no longer standing still on social media

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
... attractive proposition. The data shows email open rate for financial advisers was 16.5% as at March 2018. This percentage has fallen in recent years, the social media consultant added. This said, advisers continue to rely on emails and the telephone ...

Glaucus defends Blue Sky allegations

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018
... merits, Blue Sky has doubled down on obfuscating simple details about its business." "Instead of transparency, Blue Sky has fallen back on threats and recriminations. We simply do not see how investors can have any confidence in a Blue Sky management ...

Chief economist update: Caught in the crossfire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... issues with NAFTA) - down 5.2% and 6.5%, respectively, in the first three months of 2018 - the All Ordinaries index has fallen by 4.8% between the start of 2018 and the end of the first quarter. This compares with the Euro Stoxx-50 index's 4.1% decline ...

Chief economist update: The uncertainty that is Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... Donald Trump's micro-management the S&P 500 index remains 3.4% in the green so far this year and 10-year bond yields have fallen from the 2.94% high recorded in late February to 2.84% overnight. So too has the VIX index - down to a reading of 16.35 after ...

ETFs a winner in February market slump: Vanguard

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... shows that even as index funds' share of mutual fund assets has consistently grown, market standard deviation has risen and fallen in a way that shows no correlation with the growth of indexing, and dispersion among the stock market's securities has ...

Chief economist update: The key to ECB taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
... see. The economy expanded by 2.5% for the full-year 2017 - the fastest growth rate in 10 years. The unemployment rate has fallen from 9.6% in January 2017 to 8.7% by December last year - the lowest level since January 2009. It's therefore not surprising ...

Don't blame ETFs: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
... support that claim. Even as index funds' share of fund assets has consistently grown, market standard deviation has risen and fallen in a seemingly random pattern and dispersion among the stock market's securities has remained somewhat constant except ...

La Trobe marches credit fund beyond $2bn

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
... average and managed to maintain a consistent return at 5.2% pa since 2015 while the peer group and the benchmark index have fallen over the year, which has been driven by all-time low cash rates and increased competition from the banks resulting in the ...