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Australia bottoms out on fund disclosure

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
... should be compulsory as well," Kennaway added. Morningstar receives portfolio disclosures on a monthly basis for 42% of Australian funds and another 9% quarterly. However, 44% of funds do not share their portfolio holdings with the research house at ...

Commonwealth Super awards mandate for new strategy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
... said the portfolio will be 60% more resource efficient than the MSCI World (ex-Australia) benchmark. "CSC is our first Australian client and joins a growing roster of forward-thinking investors who are addressing the issues of environmental risk in their ...

Chief economist update: China keeps on going and going

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2020
... latest Budget Papers assumed ore prices at US$55/tonne. So far this year, it's averaged more than US$100/tonne. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is correct in stating that: "The relationship with China is a mutually beneficial one. It supports ...

HESTA partners with Australian Unity

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020
The $56 billion industry superannuation fund for health workers has partnered with Australian Unity to establish a new capital source for the For Purpose, Mutual sector in Australia. HESTA has committed $20 million as a cornerstone investor in Australian ...

AMP Capital bids farewell to active ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2020
... "We know that ETFs are a large and growing market segment in Australia. AMP Capital remains committed to providing Australian SMSF, self-directed investors and financial advisers with a broad choice of contemporary products and continue to see extremely ...

Life insurers recognised for innovation

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2020
... the winner of the Overall Investment Bond Excellence Award, Bond Estate Planning Award and Bond Child Policy Award. Australian Unity's FuneralPlan Bond won the Funeral Bond Award; it also took home the Adviser Support Award.

Boutique hires from MLC Asset Management

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2020
... UBS Wealth Management, and Macquarie Bank. She has been tasked with developing further channel opportunities across Australian equities and Australian property securities. She will also work across global equities and global property securities via the ...

VFMC chief joins ING board

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
... services as an analyst at National Mutual. ING's board is chaired by John Laker, who spent a decade as the chair of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). Other non-executive directors on its board include: Amanda Lacaze (chief executive ...

MLC appoints new head of insto distribution

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... Investments where he has been since 2007. He was most recently head of Australasia at Fisher Investments and established the Australian subsidiary of the organisation. Price was previously based in the US, before joining Fisher he worked at Merrill Lynch ...

High performance funds significantly underperform: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
New research from Rainmaker Information has found that high performance Australian equity funds significantly underperformed their benchmark over the three years to June 2020. The median high performance fund underperformed its benchmark by 300 basis ...