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Affordability: insurance spend is rising as a proportion of budgets
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Affordability: insurance spend is rising as a proportion of budgets

Continued high lapse rates suggest we need to understand the impact of insurance within household budgets.

Russell Hutchinson
Tue, May 13th 2025 10:07AM
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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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