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Best MySuper products revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... demonstrated a higher allocation to fixed income in MySuper with 23% to industry funds'15%. Despite recent headlines about liquidity cash allocation in MySuper products was reasonably consistent across all parts of the super sector. Industry funds allocated ...

Aussie equities winners, losers revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... environment can have a large impact on their performance, it said. Assessing assets under management as a proxy for liquidity was an imperfect measure, Morningstar said, Instead, investors should analyse liquidity by assessing "days to trade" or the ...

BlackRock turns optimistic on credit

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... in a research note led by BlackRock Investment Institute head Jean Boivin. On credit, BlackRock thinks the temporary liquidity issues could be helped by central bank actions but the valuations have come down for the asset class. "We have upgraded credit ...

COVID-19 ETP market winners, losers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... harder than they ever had before," Rainmaker head of investment research John Dyall said. "This is testament to the liquidity, pricing and ease of use of ETPs as tools for quickly repositioning portfolios in a world that was changing day by day, sometimes ...

Future Fund falls 3.4% in March quarter

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... prioritise portfolio flexibility, ensuring the portfolio is robust to a range of possible scenarios and has significant liquidity. This will open opportunities from the current market to position ourselves for long-term returns."

Members begin to turn on industry funds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... adviser Trevor Geffin said some of his clients have moved some of their wealth out of industry funds, concerned with the liquidity issues widely reported about some specific funds. "It's really been existing clients who had wealth in the most affected ...

Multi-asset strategies key in COVID-19 crisis: First Sentier

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... reviewing economic conditions on a six-month basis, the firm has moved to review them daily. As investors rush to generate liquidity, traditionally reliable relationships between growth and defensive assets have been broken down, he said. "Instead of ...

Challenger winds up boutique partnership

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... of major market movements in the period as well as some redemptions in funds management as superannuation funds seek liquidity to fund members switching to cash and withdrawing funds," Howes said. Fidante Partners FUM fell 11% to $56 billion, but received ...

Credit value exists in emerging markets

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... issuance increase in EM during 2020. "We've already seen EM central banks move to reduce benchmark interest rates and boost liquidity, and most EM countries are planning large relief programs to ease the shock on their local economies," Western Asset ...

APRA questioned on fund liquidity

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
The prudential regulator has been questioned over super fund liquidity concerns by the Senate Economics Committee. Senator Andrew Bragg issued a letter to APRA putting the regulator on notice to answer a number of questions related to super funds. "I ...