Schroders Global Investor Study 2018: People significantly underestimating cost of living in retirement

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Key insights include: Australians expect to spend an average of 39% of their retirement income on basic living expenses — but the reality is retirees require 58%. Working Australians feel

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Schroder Equity Opportunities Fund added to Netwealth platform

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Schroders is excited to announce that Netwealth has added the Schroder Equity Opportunities Fund to its super and investment solution. The Schroder Equity Opportunities Fund is now available via Macquarie

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Diversification paramount – Schroders asset allocation survey results

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Schroders has undertaken its second survey of significant Australian brokers to gain insight into their asset allocation views. Key findings include: Diversification replaces growth as primary driver. ASX listed stocks

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Managing through the uncertainty and noise

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The most notable aspect of market behaviour in May was the rally in key sovereign bond markets matched by gains in key equity markets. Australian equities were the exception with

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Schroders’ highly successful Real Return strategy now available on the ASX

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Leading global investment manager Schroders has launched its first direct-to-consumer managed fund on the ASX, bringing its highly successful multi-asset real return strategy to a broader range of Australian investors.

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The scourge of overconfidence

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Leaving in its wake sharp equity market retracements globally, efforts to stem falls and to revalue the currency in China, more commodity price decimation, mediocre earnings results and sharply increasing

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Crying wolf

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“Greed, for lack of a better word is good. Greed is right, Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of evolutionary spirit” Gordon Gecko (Wall St) These

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Taking stock – Still the only game in town

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The only game in town continues to play for Australian Equity investors. Over the past year the ASX200 index is flat, but Resources and Energy are both down 25%. Every

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High Swell: Riding the waves of volatility

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June proved to be a grim month for investors. Substantive falls in equities, wider credit spreads and higher bond yields made positive returns scarce. Only currency (mainly the USD) and

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Taking Stock: Many are called but few are chosen 

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Following the themes that emerged in late April, May was noticeable for a transition in market leadership away from the “yield” names that have dominated ASX market performance through the

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