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VicSuper awards $100m corporate bonds mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... awarded a $100 million investment mandate to a fixed income manager to invest in diversified Australian corporate loans. Metrics Credit Partners will manage the mandate, which falls under VicSuper's domestic fixed interest strategy. The super fund aims ...

NGS Super hires brand, digital manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
... financial services industry. "At NGS Super we are already punching above our weight in the digital space, with our internal metrics showing we are consistently among the top 10 funds for digital engagement. However, member engagement still remains one ...

Berkeley scientist develops game for advice clients

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... The game only takes a few minutes to play but the score given out at the end gives measurable insight into a range of metrics including the client's attitude to risk, capacity for loss, tolerance for ambiguous outcomes, bias towards the present and strength ...

SelectingSuper rejects claim small funds should merge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
... Rainmaker (SelectingSuper is part of the Rainmaker group) has repeatedly shown only a weak correlation between fund size and metrics such as performance or fees. Indeed there are significant numbers of boutique super funds, some with even with less than ...

Australians making more money from investing than working

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... that, in net terms, for many Australians their home and their super makes more money than they do. These national average metrics of course paint a distorted picture of national wealth but it nevertheless illustrates the changing income mix of many Australians ...

Euro - another experiment doomed to fail?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... (3.2% in 1999) and its debt was at 103.4% of national output (94% in 1999). Most likely, the Greeks submitted the 1999 metrics. But even then, the numbers didn't qualify for the Maastricht criteria that caps government deficits to 3.0% and debts to 60% ...

Lonsec launches ESG metric

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
Lonsec has launched the next series of its Better Investment Outcomes metrics, this time including one that targets environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns. As reported in Financial Standard, Lonsec's BIOmetrics are product rating tools ...

SDI products drive retail FUM growth

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
... damaging platform business directly but the growth outlook for traditional retail managed funds is dire. Despite these metrics, traditional retail assets at $1.1 trillion - including all SMSF monies notwithstanding less than 20% of this is invested through ...

Tech stock tech stock (tick tock tick tock)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015

Lonsec launches product rating tools for advisers

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
... tools divide products into three categories: "Features and Benefits", "Aggregated Risk" and "Cost". Each category has sub-metrics. As the suite is rolled out, Features and Benefits, for example, will contain assessments for complexity, tax efficiency ...