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High performance funds significantly underperform: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
... due to the negative returns seen in February and March. Three year Sharpe ratios (annualized return in excess of the risk-free rate of return divided by the annualised standard deviation of returns) and Sortino ratios (uses semi-standard deviation rather ...

MSCI launches domestic index series

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
... MSCI's Global Investable Market Indexes (GIMI) methodology and the Domestic Inclusion Factor (DIF), which calculates the free float of securities available for purchase in the local equity market. The indices are rebalanced on a quarterly basis. ...

Chief economist update: Is Dan still the man?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
Victorian premier Dan Andrews is copping it left, right and centre - citizens, businesses, medical experts, politicians - after dangling and later extending (by another two weeks) the planned September 13 end of lockdown. Already, fresh modelling by ...

It's not a bird or a plane; it's a new trading platform

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
... investors to choose between market or limit orders), real-time market analysis, as well as portfolio and share tracking data. The free account, in comparison, limits investors' ability to trade within market hours only, with investors only able to ...

Count Financial faces class action

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... ensure its financial advisers did not contravene their legal obligations to clients, failed to ensure adviser remuneration was free from conflict, act in the best interests of customers nor provide services when fees were charged. Count Financial was ...

Chief economist update: Australia succumbs to pandemic-induced recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... But now it's all over. A teenie-weenie microscopic organism has ended the Australian economy's 29-year recession-free run. Not that we need to be informed - we were already feeling it deep right through our bone marrows - but the Australian Bureau ...

Super remains grossly inequitable: Per Capita

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020
Australia's superannuation system continues to produce grossly inequitable outcomes between the financial security of Australian men and women in retirement, according to research from Per Capita. The research, titled The Herstory of Superannuation ...

UBS appoints new sector heads for equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... logical synergies with utilities. We thank Glyn Lawcock for covering this sector over the last two years, and this change will free up more time for him to focus on our important mining coverage." "In addition to continuing to assist Tom with energy ...

Fake pastor herds believers into Ponzi scheme

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020
... by a team of skilled and licensed traders for foreign exchange and cryptocurrency trading. They allegedly promised a risk-free return of between 6% and 42%. Jali claimed to be a pastor, the SEC said, and told believers that he was a self-made millionaire ...

ASIC grants frozen fund relief

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
ASIC is granting new relief measures to help investors facing financial hardship get access to money stuck in frozen funds. Pandemic-induced volatility has seen a number of managed investment schemes freeze redemptions for fear of undermining their ...