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Colonial First State reports strong super returns

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2024
... lower than the average MySuper fund. CFS chief investment officer Jonathan Armitage attributed the strong investment performance to strong returns in global and domestic equities. "The strength of global share markets has really been the core driver ...

Rest's MySuper option returns 8.67% in FY24

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2024
... it. Rest chief investment officer Andrew Lill said the results were a continuation of the fund's strong long-term performance, notwithstanding global markets grappling with stubborn inflation. "As we neared the end of last calendar year, Rest believed ...

HESTA returns 9.1% to members

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2024
... financial markets and cost-of-living pressures, the fund has continued to build on its strong long-term investment performance. She added that strong long-term investment performance would help retirees maintain their savings while they draw an income ...

Aviva exits Australia, shutters fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2024
... Fund, a unit trust that was only nine years old, launching in Australia in 2015, has been terminated following poor performance and lack of investor interest. It had a minimum investment amount of $500,000. Perpetual's The Trust Company, as the Responsible ...

Morningstar names new manager research lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2024
... Morningstar's strategy to provide comprehensive superannuation fund ratings that will address fund's fees, features and performance. The new research head brings over 10 years of strategic leadership across financial services and superannuation. ...

AllianceBernstein appoints chief AI officer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2024
... using AI to monitor reports, news, and other written documents for insights in language to measure potential company performance. Chin said this revealed that the level of complexity, or how complicated the use of language was to understand, could indicate ...

Australian Retirement Trust delivers 11.3% in FY24

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2024
... "compelling returns" while real estate was the only detractor turning in negative returns for the period. Private debt's performance once again shone. "What private debt managed to do well was deliver 8% to 10% returns consistently... On a risk adjusted ...

Australian wealth rises to $16.2tn

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2024
... assets contributed 0.9 percentage points to growth in household wealth this quarter and was driven by strong investment performance in both domestic and overseas markets. Households' direct ownership of shares and other equity contributed an additional ...

Four out of five workers to search for new jobs: Hays

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2024
... noted that nearly 40% of employees are unhappy with their salaries and 73% feel their pay doesn't reflect individual performance. "We are seeing a trend of employees expecting higher salary increases over the past three Salary Guide reports. In 2019 ...

Systematic investing in fixed income: Critical success factors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2024
... uncorrelated both with the benchmark and with important risk premia. Being a relatively new field, AllianceBernstein said the performance of some systematic fixed income products has proved lacklustre, with actual returns failing to match back-tested ...