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Active manager performance slumps: SPIVA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... About 60% underperformed the benchmark, while almost all the funds (90%) failed to beat it over a 15-year period. Australian bond funds were a safe haven for many investors, reporting small gains of 2.94% and 2.87% on equal- and asset-weighted bases. ...

MySuper products show resilience

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
August marked the fifth consecutive month of positive returns for MySuper products since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, recovering 70% of losses, new Rainmaker analysis shows. Last month generated a positive performance of about 1.7% for superannuation ...

Morningstar upgrades four, downgrades 10

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... changes, and our degree of relative conviction." Strategies updated following the review include AMP Capital's Australian Bond, which has been upgraded from bronze to silver. "AMP Capital has continued to show the fruits of its positive attributes ...

MySuper returns negative

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020
Default MySuper products delivered negative returns in the 2019/2020 financial year, but the results weren't as bad as they could have been. According to the Rainmaker MySuper investment performance index, MySuper products delivered an average return ...

Iress inks bond exchange partnership

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
Financial services software provider Iress has partnered with the Australian Bond Exchange in a move designed to increase investors' access to bonds. A partnership between Iress and the Australian Bond Exchange will allow users of Iress software to ...

Super fund to remediate members

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
An industry superannuation fund is remediating some members after identifying performance discrepancies in its cash and Australian bonds holdings. REI Super said the average estimated credit is less than $60 per member, and the effect of remediation ...

Fund managers adapt to market pain

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... looked at. "Fixed income securities are safe-haven investment during equity market crisis and corrections, though Australian bond funds tended to underperform benchmark during these periods," S&P Dow Jones Indices global research and design managing ...

Opportunities in fixed interest during crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
... been significant volatility and one of the biggest challenges has been liquidity," he said. "The liquidity in the Australian bond market has been extremely poor to the extent that along with other fund managers, we have collectively voiced our concerns ...

Low rates support some bond managers: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2020
... softened. High-grade sovereign bonds have outperformed credit," the report said. The analysis found that CFS Wholesale Australian Bond has been leading the way, followed by Pendal Fixed Interest and Schroders Fixed Income Fund - Wholesale. This is based ...

Mid and small-caps outperform in 2019

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2020
... have come out on top. Surveying returns from 829 Australian equity funds, 420 international equity funds and 115 Australian bond funds, the SPIVA Australia Scorecard found that the majority of Aussie funds performed better in 2019 than they did the previous ...