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S&P downgrades RSA
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S&P downgrades RSA

Royal & SunAlliance New Zealand is optimistic about its prospects for 2002, despite a credit downgrade from influential ratings agency Standard and Poor’s.
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Thu, Jan 10th 2002 01:28AM
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1 month ago Simon Rule
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1 month ago Clayton Coplestone
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I mean seriously, it's not really a benchmark that is a true test of skill is it?. It's set at such a level that a passive exposure would pay performance fees. From Salts own fact sheet, since inception the benchmark has returned 7.45% and also from Salts own fact sheet a passive NZX/ASX exposure return of 8.66% per annum. Congrats, you've underperformed your own passive comparison by 1.2% per annum before fees! It gets real spicy if you take a passive, hedged exposure to SPX. Now your benchmark is underperforming a passive exposure by 7% per annum. Don't really see the point of the the fund, not even volatility reduction as it looks like the fund participated fully in the drawdown during Trump 1 and COVID.
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