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Life insurance revenues down

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
... held by life insurers has dropped 23.2% over the past twelve months, as demonstrated by APRA's latest life insurance performance statistics. APRA's report for the September quarter shows total assets fell from $293.5 billion to $225.5 billion, with the ...

Japan ripe for investment

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
... portfolios across Japanese equity markets but who may be concerned about the effects of currency fluctuations on investment performance. Koll highlighted that for investors the ETF provides exposure to the top listed Japanese companies, those that pay ...

Smart beta performs in Aussie equities

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2016
... that while innovation and a coherent investment philosophy counts in the development of smart beta products, so does performance. The VanEck Vectors Australian Equal Weight ETF was the top performer at 22.2%, earning nine percentage points above the ...

Super funds becoming retirement ready

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2016
... Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia conference that Cbus will embed the RRI in to the fund as a core key performance indicator. "The score card will play into the value we are creating as a team but it won't be linked yet to individual staff ...

Active managers must promote success

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2016
... underperformed over a one year period, 65.69% over a three year people and 69.18% over five years. Mid and small-caps performance was similar with 61.32% underperforming over one year, 51.55% over three years and 38% over five years. S&P Dow Jones Indices ...

A mining renaissance courtesy of President Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2016
... relationships". To be sure, we're still not 100% sure how a President Trump will conduct US policy. But if the recent performance of the equity, bond and commodity markets is any guide, Trump could be the answer to the global growth and reflation central ...

Impact investing driving advice growth

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2016
... family offices already have SRI/ESG model portfolios that have demonstrated positive social outcomes with exceptional performance," Gunesekera says. Vice president, scientific active equities and member of BlackRock's global equity research team, Joanna ...

Super execs: Size is not scale

ALEX BURKE, ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
... "legalsuper has had no rise in insurance premiums in six years, and 80% of our investment choices have top quartile performance," Proebstl said. Reinforcing the powerful impact of smart management can have in a super fund, Telstra Super chief executive ...

AustralianSuper enhances fund transparency

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
... program ensures we exert our voting rights and also liaise directly with companies to make our views of strategy, performance and governance heard," Williams said. She added that in the past two years, AustralianSuper has invested about $5 billion of ...

Suncorp CFO says financial services disenfranchised

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
... demanding immediacy, so too are fund managers who increasingly mark themselves against three-month, not three-year performance tables," Johnston said. In combating this, Johnston told attendees that businesses must improve their customer service offerings ...