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Internalisation has gone the full circle say CIOs

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
... the tools to lower fees was reducing the fund's investment management fee. "Of course passive [products] or investing in smart beta and internalisation can get that fee a lot lower," he said. Sunsuper chief investment officer, David Hartley, said internalisation ...

Don't rage against the machine

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... wealth management will turn the financial planning industry on its head. "Consumers increasingly want to do things via their smart phone and, though unfairly, the level of trust in financial planners has gone down," she said. "Robo advice is not 'digital ...

Super funds advised to be smart with technology

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
Superannuation funds are reminded to be cautious and take a holistic approach when implementing digital customer engagement tools as technology further shapes the industry. At a recent Milliman event discussing the digital age and its implications for ...

Market set for a fairly flat open

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
The Australian market is set for a fairly flat open, after US and European markets lost ground on worries about a potential Greek exit from the euro zone. At 0655 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down three points at 5,732. ...

Van Eck launches small cap ETF

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
Van Eck has launched Australia's first small cap exchange traded fund (ETF) that tracks the index using a smart beta approach. The Market Vectors Small Cap Dividend Payers ETF (MVS) includes only the most liquid ASX listed small companies and only those ...

ANZ enters fast growing ETF market

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
... S&P/ASX100 ETF (ZOZI), which includes Australia's best performing 50 large cap companies and 50 mid-caps. ANZ also launched two smart beta funds; the S&P/ASX300 High Yield Plus ETF (ZYAU), which "looks at total share buybacks of each ASX300 company over ...

Smart beta here to stay, research confirms

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
Smart beta is present in over half of the world's portfolios, with professional investors increasingly combining multiple smart beta strategies, new global research found. The FTSE Russell Smart Beta: 2015 Global Survey Findings from Asset Owners survey ...

Low-cost super awash with inflows

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... their superannuation in direct low-fee retail products over the last 12 months. Particularly so at BT Super for Life and ANZ Smart Choice with both recording funds under management growth of more than $1.5 billion in the 12 months to December 2014. Data ...

HSBC pitches low vol strategy to instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... global asset management's head of global equities Angus Parker said. HSBC's Global Low Vol strategy sits within the manager's smart beta range of funds and aims to build a portfolio that avoids volatility and holds assets for the long term. The managers ...

IFAs to benefit from budget

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
The 2015 budget's $5.5 billion jobs and small business package will benefit independent financial advice businesses, according to industry commentators. The package includes a 1.5% tax cut for all small business (incorporated or not), a 5% tax discount ...