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Enforceable undertakings are effective: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... rely on EUs. Leading the study, UNSW Centre for Law Markets and Regulation director Dimity Kingsford-Smith said the researchers did not anticipate that a majority of organisations would report that EUs are effective misconduct deterrence methods. Businesses ...

What 1% in fees could do to investments

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
... erode their clients' nest eggs by 26% over 30 years, according to new data modelling from InvestSMART. InvestSMART researchers found stark differences in the outcomes for investors paying different fees. A person who paid 0.5% to invest $100,000 in Australian ...

Glut of underperformance in managed funds: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2018
... in Australia failed to hit benchmark returns over a 10-year horizon, according to new analysis by InvestSMART. The researchers modelled Morningstar data for 5297 manager funds that have a track record of 10 years. They found about 78% of these funds ...

New study taps into investor behavior

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018
Four Melbourne-based researchers have tested a cognitive training scheme that could help investors overcome fixation with purchase prices and limit losses. Researchers from Monash University, University of Melbourne and La Trobe University conducted ...

Financial literacy in females continues to lag

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2018
... literacy and by considerable measure, according to the latest HILDA survey. For the latest study, University of Melbourne researchers administered a five-point financial literacy test, assessing respondents on numeracy, inflation, diversification, risk-return ...

Should high-income earners pay charity levy?

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018
... also help to address rising levels of mistrust around how governments raise and use taxes to provide services, the researchers said. The paper also notes evidence to support the positive benefits of altruism; the act of giving makes people happy, healthy ...

Global fund manager creates executive role

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... Australia, Shepherd said. At a recent Financial Standard roundtable discussing how fund managers, financial advisers, researchers and analysts build investment portfolios for market crises, CFM president Philippe Jordan said true-to-label balanced portfolios ...

Better than bonds: A new approach to lifecycle investment

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2018
... compounding benefits of executing a better-fit asset-allocation strategy over a long-term investment horizon," the researchers write. The proposition? As fund managers look to increase defensive exposure as the member ages, they should pick defensive ...

Zenith hires former asset management chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2018
... was on relationship management across institutional and retail channels, including dealer groups, family offices, researchers and platforms. In October 2017, Concise Asset Management announced it wound up its Mid Cap Fund after about 10 years of operation. ...

Volatility divides investors: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2018
... on portfolio returns, the latest Natixis Investment Managers survey shows. About eight-in-ten (78%) of the 200 fund researchers and analysts who participated in the survey said they have been surprised that volatility had remained so low for so long. ...