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Shaw and Partners leverages success to grow SMA menu

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2017
... strategies Steve Anagnos said. "The three new goals-based portfolios that we have launched today; income, growth and balanced, are a blend of Shaw asset-based SMAs. Each one is managed with its own unique investment strategy in order to maximise the ...

US shares dominating other asset classes

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... also-ran." Justifying this further, Vanguard pointed to research conducted based on monthly returns for 580 Australian balanced funds from January 1990 to September 2015 which found that 89% of a portfolio's movements over time were determined by asset ...

ECB disengages from currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... currently forecast." (RBA) "A lower New Zealand dollar is needed to increase tradables inflation and help deliver more balanced growth." (RBNZ) For its part, the RBI cut interest rates by 25 bps to 6.0% amid slowing growth and because "some of the upside ...

Low-flation becoming less transitory?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... stabilise around the Committee's 2% objective over the medium term. Near-term risks to the economic outlook appear roughly balanced, but the Committee is monitoring inflation developments closely." It concluded with the forward guidance that "the Committee ...

Fatigue and profit-based incentives driving risk culture

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2017
... FINSIA's view this type of research points to the need for professionalism in financial services. Incentives need to be balanced and individuals also need demonstrated competency, a clear and enforced code of conduct and an ethical culture," FINSIA chief ...

Industry fund reduces insurance premiums

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2017
... represent good value." In the last financial year, Intrust delivered a 12.15% return and placed in the top ten of all MySuper balanced options. It has more than 124,000 members and 15,000 employers.

ETFs set to continue dominance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2017
... of information available to users of ETFs on how to use them - it would be preferable if the responses were a bit more balanced," Dyall said. Turning to the drivers of increased use, over 80% of advisers are actively managing client exposures to asset ...

Industry super fund grows ESG team

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2017
... recruiting for an environmental activist who will join the climate action team and help promote the super fund's sustainable balanced option investment. Chief executive Stephen Rowe said Vision Super is a signatory of the Paris Agreement and takes the ...

In-house investment bears fruit for AustralianSuper

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
... to be slightly overweight risk assets and that's paid off for members." The fund again posted double-digit returns for balanced account members in 2016-17, but Silk said this is not always going to be the case and it's not sustainable. Silk added the ...

Property overpowers asset class returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
... property, generating an 8.5% return per annum. All asset classes apart from cash (3.2% p.a.) outperformed a strategic balanced fund target. Looking at managed funds, in the 10 years to December 2016, the gross return for a balanced managed fund with ...