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Value managers fight back: Mercer

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
Value fund managers made a highly anticipated comeback in the first quarter of 2021, Mercer's latest analysis of Australian equities performance shows. In the year to March 2021, the Australian Shares Investment Manager Performance Survey revealed ...

Government opens consultation on key advice reforms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2021
The federal government has released draft legislation outlining the function of ASIC's Financial Services and Credit Panel as the single disciplinary body for financial advisers. The government is proposing the ASIC FSCP exercise the functions of ...

Bernie Madoff dies in prison

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021
... to 1992, but had failed to find evidence of his fraud for over a decade. Madoff was at one point the chair of the NASDAQ stock exchange. He ran a brokerage, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, which was one of the largest market maker businesses ...

ETP demand soars, unlisted unit trusts retract

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
... from 2019.Strategic-beta ETP's total assets under management in the region grew 34% to US$46.1 billion, boosted by the stock market's rally in the second half of 2020. Japan is the largest strategic-beta ETP market in the region with $37.3 billion ...

ARK Innovation ETF cops neutral rating

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
... Medicine EDIT, which it has held since 2017. The fund doubled its stake in the US-based genome editing firm in 2020, and the stock returned more than 100% over the three months through Feb. 22," the briefing read. Greengold criticised Wood's stockpicking ...

HNWs change views on advice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
New research from Investment Trends has revealed that high-net-worth investors in Australia have changed their view of professional financial advice since the pandemic. Investment Trends found that there are 485,000 HNW investors in Australia as of ...

Chief economist update: No fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021
... indicate more equity market gains ahead. In its 7 April report, the AAII found that bullish sentiment - "expectations that stock prices will rise over the next six months" - jumped by 11.1 percentage points to 56.9%. This is the highest level in three ...

Wholesale funds recover losses

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2021
... Victoria Funds Management (2.4%) and First Sentier Investors recording a slight decrease (2.8%). "While initially in 2020 stock markets worldwide experienced significant COVID-19 triggered corrections they subsequently recovered and have continued to ...

S&P rejigs index as BlackRock ETF grows

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2021
The swelling size of a BlackRock ETF that invests in clean energy stocks has forced S&P to expand the underlying index from 30 stocks to 100. But an Aussie ETF tracking the index doesn't want to change. Index giant S&P's Global Clean Energy Index launched ...

Sunsuper, QSuper members ask for better climate disclosures

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2021
About 200 members from Sunsuper and QSuper have written to the funds, asking them to disclose holdings in thermal coal, among other climate change risks. The two funds are set to merge this year, creating a $200 billon fund with over 600,000 members. ...