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Complacency the biggest risk to retirement: Forum

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2022
The biggest threat to retirement portfolios could be complacency, Vertium Asset Management chief investment officer Jason Teh has told the Financial Standard Best Practice Forum on Retirement Income. Speaking at today's event, Teh warned bull markets ...

First Super: Merger pressure fizzles out

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2022
... volatility, it is too early to say whether this will continue. The trouble with bears Watson believes that the long-running bull market has meant that size has potentially created greater returns. But as he sees it, that return differential will shrink ...

Australia ranks 40th for crypto spend

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2022
... two quarters due to the bear market. "Still, it's important to note that global adoption remains well above its pre-bull market 2019 levels, the data suggests that many of those attracted by rising prices in 2020 and 2021 stuck around and continue to ...

Market momentum to continue: ASI Conference

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021
... Superannuation Trustees (AIST) ASI 2021 conference, State Super director Carol Austin said if you take a long enough view, the bull market can continue forever. "If in 1990 I told you that interest rates were going to decline aggressively to 1% and inflation ...

Active funds quell passive flows

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2021
... all. Looking at the broader funds management sector, Calastone head of global markets Edward Glyn said: "The long bull market has favoured passive funds - savers are quite happy to ride a rising index and take the simple market return. But passive investors ...

Chief economist update: Second waving, not drowning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... its capital markets are undergoing reform and attracting money from home and abroad, setting the scene for a healthy bull market." But even before this, China and Hong Kong's sharemarkets have been moving on up despite the passage of the security ...

Chief economist update: A tale of two quarters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
... Financial Crisis of 2008. It was the best of times... Fast forward three months and every single index has rallied into a bull market at the end of the June quarter: The S&P 500 rallied by 20.0%; the DJIA by 17.8%; the Nasdaq by 30.6%; and the Russell ...

The secret to neutralising sequencing risk

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
... wealth, he said. "Ideally the pre-retiree and retired investors would have a portfolio that can perform well in a bull market phase, but more importantly, work to protect capital within the extreme 'risk off' environments," Rachcoff said.

Balanced funds fundamentally flawed

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
A Melbourne-based investment manager has blasted balanced options in superannuation funds, arguing that despite their "diversification" they fail to perform in market downturns. Many traditionally balanced funds hold anywhere between 60% to 80% exposure ...

Plan for the worst, hope for the best

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... with equity markets likely to climb on a "wall of worry" over time. "We're always nervous on the way up in the bull market," Wilson said. "One of the good things about bear markets is they're a lot shorter than bull markets. What we do know as ...