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Calls for index industry disruption

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
Morningstar has called for disruption in the index industry, arguing investors, financial advisers and asset managers have much to gain from a more diversified market. This sector of the asset management industry needs more competition, especially when ...

Global ETF leaders push for reform

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020
... securities issued by a corporate issuer (not by a pooled investment vehicle) that is linked to the performance of a market index and trades on an exchange. ETCs however, would include pooled investment vehicles with shares that invest in assets other ...

Equities attractive in search for yield: Zenith

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
... Crisis. "As observed during the GFC, dividend yields were artificially inflated by the fall in the price of the underlying index," Zenith said. "As such, we are acutely aware that this is not a true reflection of the current market environment for dividend ...

Gender diversity improves, cultural diversity falls: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2020
... highlighted the strides made in diversity at a board level, as well as those needing significant improvement. The Board Diversity index, published by the Governance Institute of Australia and recruiter Watermark Search International, examined six years ...

Chief economist update: Easing does it (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... authorities, has improved financial market sentiment... a lot. How much a lot? Compared with their mid-March 2020 lows: the S&P 500 index has rallied by 33.7%; the Euro Stoxx-50 index by 25.2%; the FTSE-100 by 21.2%; the Nikkei-225 by 24.7%; and, the ...

Industry fund swaps insurers

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
An industry fund is moving from MLC Life to OnePath as its life insurer effective July 1 and has notified members of changes to its offering. Energy Super has chosen OnePath after a rigorous tender process, the fund told members, while notifying them ...

Chief economist update: Approaching peak isolation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... the impact social restrictions and lockdowns is having on economic activity: The IHS/Markit flash US composite PMI output index dropped to a reading of 27.4 in April - "the fastest reduction in private sector output since the series began in late-2009" ...

Tail-risk hedging pays off for super fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... plans. Recent data out of the UK revealed that the aggregate deficit of the 5422 schemes in the Pension Protection Fund 7800 Index is estimated to have increased to £135.9 billion at the end of March 2020, from £124.6 billion at the end of February ...

Pension pots around the world during COVID-19

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... markets. In Chile -- which has the tenth best pension system in the world, according to Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index -- the central bank has allowed four of its five public pension funds to increase their investments in riskier assets. Meanwhile ...

COVID-19 damage to stretch several quarters: Natixis IM

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... supporting almost every corner of the US lending market. There isn't a single sector or sub-sector of the US Aggregate bond index that isn't receiving artificial support, either directly or indirectly, from the Fed," he said. "This has removed much of ...