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SelectingSuper honours super industry leaders

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... the returns they should. The growing narrative is not that we place too much emphasis on outcomes, but that we place too little on outcomes. The paradox, thanks to weak competition regulation in financial services is that low performing funds don't ...

Aussie companies drop dividends

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2018
... which made an increase of 0.5%. "Australian banks have very high payout ratios, and profits are under pressure, so there is little scope for higher dividends. Insurance payouts were also flat," according to the latest Global Dividend Index from Janus ...

AI ramping up but legal risks remain

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... experience to improve, up from 20% two years ago. Interestingly, the confidence in AI to improve risk management dropped a little from 41% in 2016 to 40% this year. "Vast improvements in processing power mean that the performance of today's machine ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... remind investors that bonds don't trade on exchanges. Bonds trade over the counter across primary dealers with very little pricing transparency. While this may sound obvious, Giordano says it cannot be overstated. Bond ETFs on the other hand, offer ...

Aussie funds among the world's largest asset owners

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... for a relatively small portion of the AO100 by assets under management, their absolute size and influence means they have little choice but to take their financial and social responsibilities seriously, and not to shirk the big issues," he said. "These ...

ALP victory to have meaningful impact: Daintree

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018
... credits, it's not that severe," he said. "But I guess the risk factor that we're looking at is that the market reacts a little bit as if that is the case - that you do get a correction in the dividend paying stocks." However Tyler stopped short of criticising ...

Star managers address low returns

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
... next? The managers thinks US stocks will slow as the interest rates rise and the dollar gets stronger. Therefore, it has little net exposure to the US. It has taken a modest net long of about 50%, meaning 50% in cash. The portfolio has roughly a 25% ...

Chief economist update: BOJ on a steady

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
... purchases would be maintained at an annual pace of ¥80 trillion - although the financial and economic backdrop have become a little bit more challenging for the Japanese central bank since its last meet on September 19. That time, the Nikkei-225 index ...

TAL slashes jobs, cuts outbound sales

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
... of the good faith duty. In its review of direct life insurance, ASIC found sales practices and products are commonly of little to no value, thereby leading to poor consumer outcomes. The review - comprising 11 market players - found numerous issues with ...

Integrity Life names head of retail product

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
... Rogers is the latest to join Integrity Life, following the appointment of Mark McCrea as head of operations and Jacqueline Little as head of group product. Former Munich Re Group managing director for Australasia Heinrich Elder was also appointed to ...