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South Australian wealth firms merge

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
An Adelaide wealth advisory and accounting practice has acquired a private wealth firm that was named the Financial Planning Association of Australia's Professional Practice of the Year in 2018. Perks is expanding its Perks Private Wealth business after ...

Investors pile into companies on life support

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... be opportunity in growth stocks in the current environment. "In an environment where economic growth has been weak and interest rates have been low, performance has tended to favour growth stocks over value stocks," he said. "Going forward we would expect ...

Investment manager launches income fund

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... focus on capital preservation and reduced risk, AAM head Teiki Benveniste said. "In this volatile, uncertain and low interest rate environment, investors are focused on finding reliable sources of higher income without risking severe capital losses and ...

ASIC bans RC case study adviser

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... personal needs when providing life insurance advice. He also failed to consider whether switching a product was in the best interest of his clients, and whether they could have achieved their objectives with the products they already had.

Fundamentals return to the forefront in EM

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... Bradford Godfrey, CFA institutional portfolio manager director of alternative & asset allocation strategies noted EM interest rates appear attractively valued when analysed against developed markets and on an inflation-adjusted basis. "We remain neutral ...

Death of dividends greatly exaggerated: Epoch

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... offshore. Damien McIntyre, chief executive of GSFM, the distributor of Epoch's retail funds in Australia, said record low interest rates were already impacting Australian investors in their search for income before COVID-19. "Australian investors ...

BetaShares launches new ETF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... sovereign bonds are currently close to zero, it is primarily bonds with a longer term to maturity that are more sensitive to interest rate movements," BetaShares said. "GGOV intends to pay quarterly income, and has management costs of just 0.22% p.a." ...

Clime courts Madison Financial Group

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
Sydney's Clime Investment Management has emerged as a bidder for Madison Financial Group, which is currently in the process of being sold by OneVue. Madison, which is home to about 100 advisers, was previously owned by Sargon Capital but fell into ...

Chief economist update: Bad news is good news is back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... and rise in stock prices by expecting businesses to go on a cost-cutting spree to defend their profit margins. Lower interest rates would also help. However, corporate austerity, in itself, dictates reduced staffing. This would only add to the more than ...

AMP defends hefty remuneration bill

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... a dividend in 2019, which he said would be reviewed after the AMP Life sale. "This decision was made in the long term interest of your company," Murray said. Explaining the poor performance of the wealth management business, Murray said the Future of ...