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Managed accounts growth delivers strong Praemium result

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
After a dramatic 12 months, a strategic focus on managed accounts and the increasing number of financial advisers embracing them has been cited as a key driver behind Praemium's FY2017 results. The platform and managed accounts provider reported a 28% ...

Vanguard recruits former industry fund CIO

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017
The former chief investment officer for the Meat Industry Employees Superannuation Fund is now a senior investment specialist at Vanguard. Mary McLaughlin joined the fund manager in May, charged with providing insights into Vanguard's equities investment ...

In-house investment bears fruit for AustralianSuper

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk has flagged expanding the fund's internal investment team to manage more than half of its rapidly growing asset base. Australia's largest superannuation fund has previously said it is aiming to manage between ...

Managing the three pillars of retirement

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2017
... towards cash in order to protect themselves from sequencing risk - or, as he put it, "holding a lot of cash to insure against bear markets." He said the drawback of this approach is that the large cash allocation may lead to retirees missing out on future ...

The bull and bear market in iron ore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2017
... quote, iron ore prices have risen by 32.5% from this year's low of US$53/tonne recorded on 13 June. But iron ore is also in a bear market - defined as a 20% drop from its nearest peak - that should encourage further price falls. As at last night, iron ...

The problem with currency extrapolation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2017
It seemed so long ago now that a "bag the Aussie dollar" campaign was what we read in financial media. The Australian dollar was trading at about US$0.75 then, it closed at US$0.7832 on 14 July and is currently trading at US$0.78. It's exactly two months ...

Competition would save Australians millions in super fees: Deloitte

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2017
... parts of the economy as a means of improving Australia's welfare and productivity. "This same approach should be brought to bear to consider how competition can improve Australia's superannuation system, taking into account the inherent challenges in ...

Australian property love affair cannot please everyone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
The just-released RBA Financial Aggregates report for May show that Australia's credit state of affairs continues. Total private sector credit growth inched up from 4.9% in the year to April to 5% last month. While this put a stop to the four straight ...

Good oil, bad oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017
Houston, do we have a problem? Oil has. It's back in a bear market - with the price of both the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Brent dropping by more than 20% from this year's highs. WTI oil edged up a little to US$42.73/barrel overnight after dropping ...

ASIC enters new era as industry funding model passes

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017
... financial services sector." She cited multiple benefits of the new model, including that entities regulated by ASIC will now bear the costs of regulation rather than taxpayers; that good conduct will drive down supervisory levies; and that ASIC's own ...