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Index investing of greater benefit: Vanguard

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022
... low-cost indexing has been around for almost half a century, and still endures. "It boils down to the simple idea that every dollar spent on investing costs is a dollar less earned in returns," Zorina said. "Our research finds that an investment portfolio ...

Westpac offloads BT super funds to Mercer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022
... $65 billion on behalf of about 850,000 members. These members are expected to see a 25% reduction in fees, including no dollar-based administration fee and reduced percentage-based administration and investment fees. Mercer's existing members will also ...

Australian dividends shatter pre-pandemic records: Janus Henderson

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2022
... - compensated for its muted pandemic performance by doubling its payouts on the back of sky-high commodity prices. "One dollar in every two paid by Australian companies in Janus Henderson's index over the last 12 months were distributed by a mining company." ...

RBA outlines next phase of bond purchase program

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2022
... ease financial conditions by lowering bond yields further out the curve and to heap downward pressure on the Australian dollar exchange rate. Successfully the bond purchase program triggered lower bond yields that helped lower financing costs for borrowers ...

Beware super home buyer collateral damage: ISA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2022
The Coalition's super home buyer proposal could leave thousands worse off, even if they don't access the scheme, Industry Super Australia (ISA) has said. ISA said that under the super home buyer scheme, funds would be forced to carry more cash. As cash ...

T. Rowe Price names new head of ESG enablement

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2022
... billion in assets under management. Earlier in her career at BlackRock, Allonby was a portfolio manager for multi-billion-dollar global energy funds that invested across the traditional energy sector as well as for dedicated sustainable energy funds. ...

Tesla axed from the S&P 500 ESG index

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2022
... that current ESG reporting didn't measure the scope of positive impact on the world. Rather it focused on measuring the dollar value of risk/return. "Individual investors - who entrust their money to ESG funds of large investment institutions - are perhaps ...

Allianz subsidiary, former portfolio managers charged over massive fraud

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2022
... Global Investors and three of its former portfolio managers have been charged by the US regulator over a multi-billion-dollar securities fraud sold to pension funds that went on for more than four years. The Securities and Exchange Commission charged ...

Superannuation not a super solution to housing affordability

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2022
Homeownership rates have plummeted, but unions and industry groups have had a negative response to Scott Morrison's last-ditch pitch to 'aspirational Australians'. Morrison has said that supporting first home buyers is a key part of his government's ...

Cbus announces changes to admin fees, premiums

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2022
... administration fees by 25%. However, at the same time, some members will begin paying more for death and TPD. The reduction in the dollar-based administration fee will apply to all Cbus members and all members in the Media Super division from July, Cbus ...