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VanEck adds two to Australian team

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
... statistics. VanEck has 4.5% of Australia's total ETP market, managing $1.6 billion as at March, according to Rainmaker Research. It was the fastest growing of the 10 largest ETP managers, picking up $894 million in FUM - an increase of 126% in the ...

Pengana hires distribution lead from NAB

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
... was the fifth-highest performer in Australian small caps strategies over three years to May31, according to Rainmaker research. Over 10 years, it returned 15.1% compared to the 8% median for the sector. On July 11, the Pengana emerging companies fund ...

Super funds underplay risk profiles: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
... of investment options to members, hence making it difficult to accurately compare products. This is according to new research from Monash Business School, which highlights the lack of guidance available in determining the level of riskiness between options ...

Aussie retirees blindsided by cost of living: Schroders

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
... retirement is surprising Australians as a significant gap between financial expectations and reality emerges. Latest Schroders research shows working Australians save an average of 12% of their current income for retirement; despite feeling they should ...

HUB24 introduces low-cost product

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
... possible list of 17 providers. AdviserNETgain and Lonsec took out the tops spots for planning software and investment research categories respectively.

Chief economist update: What goes around is starting to get around

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
Some would call it karma, for many it's just the plain and simple truism that a trade war is a lose-lose proposition. In his quest to "make America great again" and under the guise of "national security", US President Donald Trump kicked off with ...

New S&P indices factor in future carbon price risks

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2018
S&P Dow Jones has launched 12 new indices that will adjust valuations of companies included in some of its established indices, to account for the future impact of carbon prices on stock prices. The S&P carbon price risk adjusted indices will be constructed ...

Wealthier Aussies seeking advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2018
Latest research shows about two million Australians sought financial advice in the 12 months to May, accounting for more than 27% of the total wealth management market. In its latest report, Roy Morgan has found that 1.96 million Australians have seen ...

Advisers grapple with client retention

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2018
... helping. The good news is professional standards reform is helping restore the reputation of the industry, Investment Trends research reveals. In the 12 months to May, financial planners lost 35 active clients and gained 20, netting to a lower client ...

Chief economist update: The Goldilocks rate of interest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2018
The neutral interest rate is the Goldilocks level of the fed funds rate - not too cold that it would continue stimulating growth (and lift inflation) and not too hot that it would cause economic activity to slow. Ho-hum. US Federal Reserve Chairman ...