Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 771 - 780 of 6727 results for "Benchmark"

Death of value investing a myth: Realindex

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... including Tesla, Amazon and Apple, our paper shows that the value underperformance, relative to the market capitalization benchmark, largely disappears once we exclude these names. "To us, the outperformance of growth looks quite unstable. If we take ...

Leadership spills spell new era: RIAA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2020
... delivering outcomes that in its absence would have been unlikely." He added that RIAA's recent Responsible Investment Benchmark Report showed that responsible investment now represents 13% of Australia's $3.155 trillion in professionally managed assets ...

Active portfolios post stellar returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
... pension plan respectively. On an annualised basis it returned 28.8% p.a. as at September2020 since inception, while its benchmark delivered 6.4%, beating it almost fivefold. Vision Super chief investment officer Michael Wyrsch told Financial Standard ...

Ausbil drops fees on global equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020
... reinvested)'s 4.82% over the 12 months ending June 30. Returns since December 2002 inception are 0.79% p.a. below the benchmark, factoring in the old fees.

Super reforms modest negative for AMP, IOOF: Credit Suisse

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2020
... from July 2021 and all trustee-directed super products from July 2022. Funds that fall five percentage points below the benchmark two years in a row will be barred from receiving new members and listed as underperformers on a new YourSuper portal until ...

MySuper funds face new test, member bans

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... performance, and will take individual asset allocation in performance. "Products that underperform their net investment return benchmark by 0.5 percentage points per year over an eight-year period will be classified as underperforming. For MySuper products ...

Government declares record deficit, super reforms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... worker changes jobs, with Australians to be 'stapled' to their super account. Further, from July 2021, APRA will benchmark MySuper products, with products that have underperformed over two consecutive annual tests to be banned from taking on ...

Benchmark-lagging LIC faces strategic review

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... -11.38% over the six months to June 30, with the fund returning -3.92% over a 12-month period. In comparison, the LIC's benchmark, the MSCI AC World (net dividends) index, returned -4.28% and 4.08% over the same time periods. Longer term, TGG has consistently ...

Trustees cutting corners: Rowell

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
The prudential regulator has lambasted superannuation funds for not taking underperformance seriously and failing to compare themselves accurately against their peers. APRA deputy chair Helen Rowell said that many superannuation funds are overlooking ...

GMO launches global equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
The global manager has launched an Australian vehicle for its $13.5 billion flagship quality-focussed global equities strategy. The new trust will be open to local wholesale investors. It draws upon the GMO Quality Strategy, which has been running since ...