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Adviser salaries in 2020 revealed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... bonuses. For a financial adviser with up to five years' experience, a salary in the range of $90,000 to $120,000 is the benchmark, while associate advisers with up to three years in the role can take home between $75,000 and $90,000. For paraplanners ...

ASIC issues stark warning to retail investors

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... volatility. ASIC found that the average daily securities market turnover by retail brokers increased from $1.6 billion in the benchmark period to $3.3 billion during the period of COVID-19 volatility. "Retail trading as a proportion of total trading ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone good news to get worse before it gets better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020
... this year to 38.32 points as at 4th of May. This, in turn, has improved the Euro Stoxx-50 index's performance. The benchmark index has rallied by 18.1% from this year's low of 2385.8 points recorded on March 18. However, it remains 24.8% below ...

Investment approaches in change phase

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... building a portfolio that is more in lines with the goals of the organisation rather than trying to perform to a particular benchmark or peer group is a key difference. "Having a much stronger focus on the goals of an organisation frees you up to look ...

Northern Trust touts new ESG tool to instos

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... custodian is pitching a new ESG analytics tools to local superannuation funds and asset managers to track, compare and benchmark their ESG score. Northern Trust, which is best known in Australia as custodian to a number of public sector funds, also currently ...

Best MySuper products revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
Rainmaker's latest MySuper benchmarking report has seen industry funds on top for market share and performance as at December end. For MySuper products with a single investment strategy (as opposed to lifecycle products) AustralianSuper was on top. ...

Platinum funds downgraded at Morningstar

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... the downside protection, its process setting requires many investment settings to be right to consistently beat the benchmark, Morningstar said in a note yesterday. "For example, a near 40% underweighting the US over five years to 31 Dec 2019 has proved ...

BNY Mellon IM boutique heads for ASX mFunds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
Insight Investment is listing a multi-asset fund on the ASX's mFunds marketplace, in a first for BNY Mellon's boutique partners. The Insight Diversified Inflation Plus Fund invests across equities, bonds, real assets and total return strategies ...

BlackRock turns optimistic on credit

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... classes (equities, government bonds and cash) except credit, which it upgraded in April. "We are mostly sticking to benchmark holdings on an asset class level; prefer credit over equities; and favor rebalancing into the risk asset decline," it said in ...

A case for flexible asset allocation: First Sentier

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... "Firstly, the 'objective' for the investment manager in that context is to outperform the strategic asset allocation benchmark, not necessarily to manage to the objective. "Secondly, the strategic asset allocation framework provides a relative ...