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Decumulation will drive investment focus shift: AXA IM

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2017
... focus on asset allocation. Australia has, for many years, been a beacon for the world in terms of DC accumulation. "Unsurprisingly, there has historically been a high allocation to real return growth assets. However, going forward, it seems asset allocation ...

Cyber breaches arise internally: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
... able to articulate their cyber risk culture and their management of cyber risks, beyond their IT departments, are unsurprisingly in the strongest position for negotiations of cyber insurance quotations and coverage," she said. Asia-Pacific head of talent ...

Equities on the nose in 2016

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... tries to understand "what it can tell us about changes in investor behaviour between groups and through time." Unsurprisingly, older investors are turning over the largest proportion of their investments, CFSGAM said. "This is intuitive, as many of this ...

Japan still leading APAC offshore investors

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2016
... like Japan with an aging population so that structural demand for income and stability is not likely to go away." Unsurprisingly, the most popular asset class for offshore investors was Australian property, representing 31.1% of all offshore investments ...

Fintechs face marketing battle

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2016
... all sectors of the industry including retail banking, insurance, fintech, fund managers and superannuation funds. Unsurprisingly marketing managers are focusing their investment and emphasis on digital marketing, while traditional print and TV advertising ...

ANZ mulls selling wealth business

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2016
... following on from its agreement to sell its Asian retail and wealth businesses to DBS Bank earlier this week. Perhaps unsurprisingly, performance in ANZ's Australian wealth business weakened over the year, dropping by 24% to $159 million in cash profit. ...

Women behind in financial wellness survey

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
... first building blocks to wellness, that is budgeting and debt management." In this category, 96% of respondents unsurprisingly indicated they were not prepared for the future, and 91% said their finances were out of control. As above, the majority of ...

Super funds struggling as member engagement decreases

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
... 23.8%. This trend is accentuated with younger generation Y members, whose engagement decreased from 47.4% to 41.3%. Unsurprisingly, this also coincides with a slide in members' overall satisfaction with their super funds. In 2015, 73.5% of surveyed members ...

Aussie pension pros most confident about valuations

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016
... hedge funds in the next three years. A similar proportion plans to invest more in real estate over that time." Unsurprisingly more than half of the APAC respondents saw the challenge of effectively aligning assets with liabilities as 'high' or 'very ...

Aussies unsure about super contributions

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... offer their employees (43%), whereas only 18% of employees say they currently receive this as a corporate benefit." Unsurprisingly Australians' most common dream for retirement is to travel overseas (58%). When asked where Australians want to travel ...