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Rice Warner weighs in on Your Future, Your Super

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021
... outcomes for the amounts which they will be investing," it said. Consequently, the firm recommends that funds are grouped in blocks of five to avoid the idea that a fund appearing at the top is ranked the best. Performance results should also be over ...

Court blocks bid to freeze Phil Kingston's assets

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
A court has blocked an attempt by Sargon's Chinese lender to freeze the assets of Phil Kingston, as the latter heads towards public questioning next month. China Insurance Finance Group Ltd commenced court proceedings on August 24, seeking repayment ...

S&P launches sustainable versions of flagship indices

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
... created sustainability screened versions of S&P's flagship indices. "These flagship indices are core portfolio building blocks and the new screened versions will provide more choices for sustainable investing," she said. "We welcome adding a new suite ...

ASIC winds up illegal land banking scheme

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
... 200 members to help fund the purchase of the land from October 2017. The land was set to be sub-divided into residential blocks and then transferred to each investor per $200,000 contribution. ASIC said the money paid to Askk was pooled and used to pay ...

UK competition watchdog blocks merger

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2020
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has blocked the merger of retail investment platforms FNZ and GBST due to fears of it leading to higher costs for investors. FNZ purchased GBST in November 2019 for £150 million. The merged businesses would ...

Vanguard funds downgraded by Morningstar

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2020
... has limited mechanisms to produce alpha against our category benchmarks, given the similarity in the underlying building blocks," Morningstar said. "As a result, the greater benchmark-relative focus of our enhanced ratings methodology has adjusted our ...

New ETFs see success as UBS suspends funds

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... "They realise that they can access a variety of asset classes at a relatively low cost and can be used as the building blocks of multi-asset portfolios." During the early stages of the pandemic, investors rushed to ETFs with exposure to traditional safe ...

A case for flexible asset allocation: First Sentier

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... allocation framework provides a relative blunt way to reflect shorter views, therefore holding all the underlying building blocks directly (rather than via funds) gives more flexibility and provides efficiency." Compared to traditional multi-asset products ...

Technology to transform coming decades

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... established financial institutions. "There is clear and mounting evidence that AI, blockchain, IoT and big data are the building blocks of our future economy and these are the pillars that underpin the Fourth Industrial Revolution," Mabbott said. "For ...

Chief economist update: Bah humbug

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019
... Claus has already come to town - aided by underlying optimism over a US-China "phase one" deal (despite some stumbling blocks) and accompanied by the recent improvement in world manufacturing activity. The JP Morgan global manufacturing PMI rebounded ...