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Best managed funds, ETFs named

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2020
Too many funds, which one to pick? Money magazine's annual Best of the Best Awards recognise the standout performers. The 2021 awards looked at the top-five across 12 unlisted fund categories and separately, three ETP categories. To win funds needed ...

Chief economist update: China keeps on going and going

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2020
... from the 2020 low recorded back in April - good for Australia. Even better for this Land Down Under is that the price of iron ore - Australia's biggest commodity export - has soared to seven-year highs, with positive implications for Australia's ...

Chief economist update: David Australia versus Goliath China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
... total exports. In addition, Australia will have to find more money to finance its fiscal deficit should China decide to stop iron ore imports. The Australian government's projected Budget balance is being boosted by the high price of iron ore - currently ...

Chief economist update: It's looking up for the land down under

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
... punctuated by significant increases in both full-time and part-time jobs; and, the surging price of our biggest commodity export - iron ore - one that's bound to reduce the budget deficit the Treasury forecast in the Budget Papers 2020/2021 and/or ...

Franking credits more important than ever

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... We expect this to be sustainable in the foreseeable future and believe there remains a positive outlook for the price of iron ore," Gardner said. "Rio Tinto and BHP are other notable dividend payers at the moment which offer retirees the additional benefit ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore to reduce Aussie deficit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... machinery and staff, stimulating more hiring......and lessen the need for more government spending. Not only that, the price of iron ore keeps on going and going... up. Iron ore accounts for over 25% of Australia's total goods exports. To date, iron ...

Ironbark to wind up emerging markets fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
Ironbark Asset Management has terminated an emerging markets small caps fund, after the underlying manager decided to close. The Ironbark Copper Rock Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund aimed to beat the MSCI Emerging Markets Small Cap Index (in AUD) ...

Active managers grapple with EM

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2020
New Rainmaker research shows just 30% of actively-managed emerging-market funds delivered on their promise in the last three years. The latest Rainmaker Wholesale managed funds performance report looked at 22 products with $6.5 billion of assets over ...

Disruption not sustainable: Schroders

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2020
... there is no value." Further to this, Conlon said resources companies like BHP and Rio Tinto are unlikely to be disrupted as iron ore has done well but even commodities like alumina and oil which have been the reverse, will not. "The way that we see is ...

MySuper reforms could have downsides

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
The government's proposed reform to MySuper products, which will involve naming and shaming underperforming MySuper products, could actually end up hurting fund performance, according to some critics. Advance Human Solutions managing director Alexandra ...