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Managed accounts fulfil best interest

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2021
... becoming a mainstream solution for Australian financial advisers," Guiamatsia said. In addition, through the market volatility in 2020 88% of advisers rated managed accounts as 'good' or 'very good' for transaction execution/quality, strengthening their ...

Acadian launches multi-asset fund

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2021
... defensive alternatives exposure. The fund aims to deliver a return above the S&P/ASX Bank Bill index with a targeted volatility of 6% over rolling three-year periods. "Acadian's Global Macro Fund is designed to seek absolute returns regardless of market ...

Bank rebound buoys Aussie equities funds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2021
... discretionary as a contributing factor to outperformance against their benchmarks. Meanwhile, Mercer found several low volatility funds performed below the median in the same period. These include AB Managed Volatility Equities, Acadian Australian Equity ...

Good year for active managers in fixed income

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2021
... review. Zenith said the negative benchmark returns came as government bond yields traded in a wide range and experienced volatility. Active managers had it rough in October 2020 but benefited from the spike in inflation expectations that contributed ...

Retirement portfolios need a rethink: Research

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2021
A sufficient level of retirement income relies on income volatility as a measure of the risk of impaired living standards in retirement rather than asset return volatility, new research shows. New research from Franklin Templeton subsidiary Martin Currie ...

Northern Trust launches low carbon strategy

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2021
... Northern Trust Asset Management (NTAM) has launched an actively managed strategy that focuses on high-quality, low-volatility stocks while maintaining a lower carbon footprint. The Quality Low Volatility Low Carbon World (QLV Low Carbon) Strategy is ...

Active Super returns 23%

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
... whether at some point we might need to take that tilt off, if we were really certain that there's going to be more volatility coming," he said. "So, we're watching things like inflation, what impact that will have on the central bank [policy] ...

MySuper performance soars

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2021
... in place over the last five years," Fok said. "We managed our cashflow exceedingly well during the initial Covid-19 volatility which meant that we could invest for our members on the upswing." In addition, Cbus now manages 35% of assets in-house which ...

Carnegie launches second crypto fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2021
... farming, arbitrage strategies, options strategies and basis trading, targeting a 30% annual return while minimising volatility.

Robinhood hit with record-breaking fine

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021
... Robinhood's website and mobile applications shut down, preventing customers from accessing their accounts during peak market volatility. Robinhood was ordered to pay US$57 million and about US$12.6 million in restitution, plus interest, to thousands ...