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The top-performing (and worst) asset classes of the past year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
Mercer's annual periodic table, which charts 17 major asset classes investment returns on an annual basis over the last decade, reveals that there's few reliable themes, except that greater risk tends to be rewarded by greater return. Equity ...

Australian equity fund manager in a league of its own: Mercer survey

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
... best performers, it also ranked in the top 10 over both three- and five-year periods. The remaining funds at the top of the table were the Paradice Australian Equites Fund (7.4%) and the Pendal Sustainable Australian Share Fund (7.1%). They were followed ...

Warakirri adds kiwifruit aggregation to farmland fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2025
... 50% for nuts such as almonds, macadamias, walnuts, and pistachios. Further allocations include up to 35% to both wine and table grape vineyards, up to 30% to row crops, and up to 20% to water entitlements.

DII drives life insurance disputes: APRA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
Disability income insurance (DII) continues to be a bugbear for the life insurance industry and is the most highly disputed product among advised, non-advised and group insurance customers, APRA statistics show. In 2024, total DII disputes reached 1987 ...

Trump backflips on tariffs but risks remain

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
... reciprocal tariffs imposed on all nations, bar China, in excess of 10% for 90 days to encourage nations to go to the negotiating table. However, China saw tariffs increased to 125%, which will drive a further wedge between the two nations which appear ...

Tariff impact on super 'profoundly worrying'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2025
... would be a drawn-out battle over the tariffs, where countries like China or those in Europe refuse to go to the negotiating table with the US. "To date, we haven't seen them come to the negotiating table, and China has announced their retaliatory measures ...

Dutton doubles down on 'super for housing' policy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025
Opposition leader Peter Dutton put his party's policies on the table during his Budget reply speech, in which he campaigned on energy price reductions, a tougher stance on immigration and increased spending for healthcare and education. While Treasurer ...

Payday super on track, but so is the $3m super tax

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... concerns. "As a revenue item, tonight's Budget was the last opportunity for the government to either take this tax off the table or make changes to address the significant issues raised by industry and the Parliament," Burgess said. "Material changes ...

AMP staff surveillance slammed by FSU

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
... agreements including details of any guaranteed pay increase, leave or redundancy entitlements. "AMP needs to come to the table and urgently negotiate an Enterprise Agreement which would give its workers rights and protection," McPherson said. FSU said ...

State Super: In decline but doing fine

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
... significant focus on trying to reduce volatility," he said. Livanas said one way to lessen volatility is to take risk off the table, which results in lower returns. Another approach is to use downside protection derivatives, which does pay off when markets ...