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Australia sweeps pension market rankings

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2021
Australia is the most successful pension system among developed countries, according to Wills Towers Watson. The firm's Thinking Ahead Institute 2021 Global Pension Assets Study said Australia's thriving pension system boasts an 11.3% per annum ...

NSW economic performance slips: CommSec

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2021
... trade and ranked third or fourth on the other indicators. The ACT remains in second position on the overall performance rankings and ranked first on relative unemployment. Queensland is ranked first for housing finance but came in seventh for both relative ...

International investors eye Aussie market

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2021
... allocations within the region. For international investors, Sydney and Melbourne are the locations of choice, topping the rankings for preferred investment locations in APAC. "Australian real estate will likely see much stronger interest from North American ...

Vanguard growth ETFs shine

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
... November and Zurich Concentrated Global Growth returned 22.4% per annum. Over a one-year period, the former topped the rankings, delivering 39.4% p.a. while Forager's International Shares Fund returned 36.7% per annum. The research note found Aussie ...

Active manager winning streak short lived

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2020
... REITs (18.8%) were the least persistent in staying above the fray, while bond funds (75%) tended to maintain top-quartile rankings. Over a five-year period to June 2020, only a third (31.3%) of the 166 funds analysed remained in the top quartile; about ...

Best super, pension fund revealed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020
... Elsewhere, Tasplan was awarded best MySuper lifecycle product. This award looks at which products had the best overall rankings for fund members aged in their teens, 20s, 30s, 40, 50s and 60s; Tasplan ranked the highest across all age groups, followed ...

Chief economist update: The virus, the vaccine and Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
... worldometer.info ranks America number 12 when measured in total cases per one million of the population - one and two rankings better than San Marino and Aruba, respectively. The website also show the US not doing that bad in terms of deaths per one ...

Tasmania remains best performing state: CommSec

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
... population growth and third on relative unemployment, while Queensland is in joint sixth position on the performance rankings with Western Australia and the Northern Territory. CommSec chief economist Craig James it sees compression in the rankings. ...

Super needs improvement: Report card

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... features, it has areas for improvement that differentiates it from an A-grade system. (Mercer also attributed the drop in rankings primarily to a reduction in the net replacement rates published by the OECD.) Within the sustainability and integrity sub-indices ...

Northern Trust races up custody league tables

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020
... assets (down -2.5%). This is the second consecutive period that it has slid up the ranking. Citi Group also improved its rankings, coming in the third largest from the fourth spot at December end. BNP Paribas also moved up one spot to the fifth-largest ...