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Active fixed income funds review fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
Fund managers of active fixed income strategies are rethinking their pricing as financial advisers and institutional investors drive a harder bargain in a lower-returning world, and new retail opportunities beckon. Several fixed interest giants, including ...

Perpetual expands risk advisory capabilities

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
Perpetual picked up a Melbourne-based specialist risk advisory business. Perpetual has acquired Priority Life, a specialist risk advisory business with a strong focus on medical practitioners, professionals and business owners, to strengthen its risk ...

Industry still shy of flat dollar fees: Frontier

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
A report from Frontier Advisors suggests superannuation funds and investment managers are still not comfortable with flat dollar fees. The report, titled 'Managing costs and aligning interests: A decade on', written by director Fiona Trafford-Walker ...

Chief economist update: As low as Lowe will go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
The RBA's growth and inflation forecasts and the Taylor Rule calls for just one more rate cut next year. So there we have it ladies and gents, the answer to every Australian's question du jour, how low will domestic interest rates go? I posed ...

New head of investments at MLC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2019
... and we look forward to him coming onboard." Clark has already joined MLC and Gosling will remain until the end of December. Ben McCaw has also been promoted to senior portfolio manager for capital markets research.

Pendal Group yanks equities mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2019
Pendal Group has pulled nearly $460 million from an international equities manager, as it hands over the management of three funds to its in-house team. AQR Capital Management managed three funds for Pendal. These are the Pendal core hedged global share ...

Industry fund partners with global asset manager

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2019
A $70 billion industry superannuation fund has partnered with a global asset manager to enhance its dynamic asset allocation capabilities. Sunsuper and PineBridge Investments have joined forces to ensure the super fund's 1.4 million members benefit ...

BetaShares to list new diversified ETFs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2019
BetaShares has announced it will launch four diversified ETFs on the ASX in December this year. The diversified ETFs are low cost, all-in-one investment solutions that aim to provide exposure to a blended portfolio of asset classes, including shares ...

Chief economist update: Let's talk about debt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2019
Financial Standard had been calling for it, central banks have, and now it's the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In its latest bi-annual economic global economic report released this month, the OECD maintained its Australian ...

APRA floats insurance in super change

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2019
APRA has floated proposed revisions to prudential standards covering insurance in super, including requiring independent verification of insurance arrangements to ensure they are in the best interests of members. The prudential regulator has released ...