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Franklin Templeton veteran readies two funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
... and a long-only equities fund, which has been running since 2004. Both funds are managed with a value focus and are benchmark agnostic. The portfolio managers are Mark Holowesko and Sean Farrington who left Franklin Templeton around 2000 to set up their ...

What you read in 2019: Financial advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... experience and five years in their current role could expect annual remuneration in the realm of $120-$160,000. Kaizen said benchmark salaries are now most likely calculated using a scorecard that looks at both financial and non-financial performance ...

The dark horses of Aussie shares funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019
... manager only hit 16.3% -- meaning an underperformance of 3%. And just one of every five funds in the category beat the benchmark after fees. This is worse than three-year returns, where a third of managers are still beating the benchmark. The median ...

Practice profitability at risk: MLC Life

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019
... the amount of additional fees to charge." The Cost and Efficiency of Delivering Advice white paper enables advisers to benchmark their practice against those of their peers, providing breakdowns of average costs and time spent on particular tasks.

Chief economist update: Has the Fed conquered the yield curve?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2019
... Westpac's report: "Our opposing view for 2020 is instead that three further federal funds rate cuts will be seen, taking the benchmark down to 0.875%. This forecast rests on two core beliefs: (1) while a 'phase 1' deal will come to pass ...

Culture index launched

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
... companies with the capacity to measure and strengthen corporate culture and provide companies with a strong culture to benchmark and highlight performance. TWI co-founder, Sunil Vohra, said failing to accurately measure and report on organisational culture ...

MySuper heat map lauds industry funds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
... by AMP, with Brookfield Australia MySuper, Macquarie Group MySuper and Woolworths Group MySuper all performing above benchmark across investment performance, fees and costs and the sustainability of member outcomes. AMIST, Energy Super, First State Super ...

APRA releases MySuper heat map

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
The prudential regulator has finally published its long-awaited heat map for MySuper products, with deputy chair Helen Rowell saying it's likely many in the industry will feel uncomfortable. APRA released the first iteration of its MySuper heat ...

Pendal cuts fee on multi-asset fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019
Pendal Group has dropped the fees on a $690 million multi-asset fund that has been running for close to 40 years. The Pendal Sustainable Balanced Fund will go from charging 0.90% per annum to 0.80% per annum in management costs. Indirect costs are 0.05% ...

Industry fund overhauls MySuper options

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2019
... a range of changes to its strategic asset allocation for the Building and Growing options which will see the overall benchmark allocations to growth and defensive assets change to 100% growth assets for both. Reflecting this, the investment return objective ...