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Bonds reward equity investors seeking refuge

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... investors are increasingly seeking the safe haven offered by government bonds. Superannuation members in UniSuper's balanced option recorded a 1.7% return for the year to 30 November 2018. Within that, Australian fixed interest outshone the other ...

Former Liberal Party leader joins Islamic super fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2018
... Crescent Wealth to negotiate lower investment fees for members. In late-November the fund announced investment fees for its balanced option would be reduced from 1.25% per annum to 1.18%. Its conservative option dropped from 0.87% to 0.83%, while its ...

Asset managers join diversity program

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... placing the competition's winning team in one of our partners' summer internship programs." The competition will see gender-balanced teams of four complete a range of investment challenges, with teams mentored by an investor during a series of state ...

Vertical integration not to blame

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... understood, and enforced," were vehicles to adequately manage the risks. But not everyone agrees. One of these "controls" - the balanced scorecard - has been described as flawed in the latest research from Macquarie University's Department of Applied ...

Royal Commission puts bonuses on notice

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
Latest research from Macquarie University uncovers flaws in the use of balanced scorecards to determine remuneration. It comes as Australia's biggest bank bosses face the Royal Commission. According to researchers from the university's Applied ...

FASEA clarifies adviser exam rules

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2018
... balancing FASEA's legislative obligations," Glenfield said. "Industry and consumer feedback has helped to create a balanced set of standards that, taken as a whole, offer a workable framework for how the industry will evolve into the future - for ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... bond issuance picked up significantly in Australia and offshore throughout the GFC. In 2007, the sectors were relatively balanced at roughly one-third high-grade, government and credit respectively as reflected in the Bloomberg AusBond Index - but this ...

AustralianSuper changes property option

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018
... and confirm they want to stay in the option. Any members who don't confirm will be automatically switched to the balanced option on November 16. Why the change? Speaking at its member briefing in Sydney last week, AustralianSuper's group executive ...

AustralianSuper to cut equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2018
... got an idea where we reduce it by about 5% over this fiscal year, might be more, might be less." AustralianSuper's balanced option had a 61% allocation to shares at the year ending in June. For 2019, the fund is pegging a lower strategic asset allocation ...

Industry fund drops life premiums, pension fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2018
... on the resulting fee savings to our pension members," Smith said. Releasing its annual results recently, REI Super's balanced option provided a return of 7.72% and 8.59% over five years, after fees and taxes. "Pleasingly, our results are also in excess ...