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Market pain to continue: State Street

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... sight, indexes like the VIX and the mild retreat from its high is more likely a reflection of willingness to take on a little more risk given the fall in risk assets we have seen." As we learn more about the COVID-19 pandemic, he said, some uncertainty ...

Adequacy argument headlines online CMSF

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... members in particular you can build their story really easy and you can imagine them," she said. "You won't see them for a little while because they've had a very busy 2020. But make no mistake they still work in a system that compulsorily requires them ...

Australia versus the world

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... case' prior to the consideration of any stimulus looked like as we're dealing with a circumstance for which there is little precedent." The distribution of possible outcomes, Miller said, is immensely large even around a central case that is ...

Tail-risk hedging pays off for super fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... a type of insurance as it promises to deliver when equity markets don't. PIMCO describes tail-risk hedging as giving a little bit of return each year to purchase protection against a market meltdown. The usefulness of this kind of "insurance" is clear ...

Isolated advisers enter the digital age

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... hiccups. "I basically told everyone to grab their monitors and go home, and because we do use quite a lot of tech (with a few little exceptions) we were able to be back online and operational that afternoon," she said. "We've been Zoom users for ...

What's next for income-focused funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... dividends. "Whole equities market is going to be hurt by dividend scale backs, but income-focused funds will be hurt a little more. Balance sheet strength should be front of the mind for new allocations," he said. Hunting for dividends Plato Investment ...

Super should shape up on unlisted valuations: WTW

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... consider whether to devalue these assets during the Global Financial Crisis. "But what may surprise some is that there is very little consistency in the way Australian super funds and other unlisted asset owners manage the valuation process," Kelly said. ...

COVID-19 sparks renewed fight for commissions

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2020
... said. "No doubt the institutions will find many 'administrative' reasons for extracting large fees from the revenue leaving little for consumers."

Pandemic response concerns overblown

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020
... think about fiscal responses to the crisis "as loans that need to be paid back on a short clock", Australia would "do too little on the fiscal front". "We will damage the ability of the economy to come out this crisis healthy enough to grow away the ...

Bigger balances, bigger blow: Elia

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... 300,000 of its 1.1 million members now sitting in the public offer division. "I can understand how people from afar can be a little ill-informed and may have reached those kind of conclusions... We've got 570,000 members who have account balances ...