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Multi-asset emerging market approach halves volatility

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
A multi-asset approach which blends emerging market debt, dividend paying stocks and high growth small and mid-sized companies is the key to easing institutional investors' anxiety about the high level of volatility that comes with investing in developing ...

Super insurance still worth billions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
The life insurance industry continues to profit from its superannuation policies despite the spike in group insurance claims, figures released by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) show. According to APRA's Life Insurance Supplementary ...

Future Fund and super returns on par

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
The Future Fund has achieved rolling 3 year returns of about 9.5% pa, putting the de facto sovereign wealth fund on par with workplace super funds when the Future Fund's tax-free and member-free status is taken into account. The $98 billion Future Fund ...

La Trobe mortgage fund gets "Strong" rating

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
The La Trobe Australian Mortgage Fund has been awarded a "Strong" rating from Australia Ratings. In its first rating from Australia Ratings, A the rating was given due to a number of operational components, performance, financial adequacy and stability ...

AMP seeks to raise $200 million with debt issue

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013
AMP is seeking to raise $200 million through the launch of new subordinated and unsecured debt securities on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). Known as AMP Subordinated Notes 2, the new instruments were intended primarily to finance existing ...

Future Fund boosts exposure to global equities, infra

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
The Future Fund has increased its exposure to infrastructure and global equities in both developed and emerging markets and, at the same time, it has reduced its exposure to debt securities and alternatives. "Across economies, policy efforts to lift ...

Investment income fuels life insurance sector

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2013
Life insurance industry figures released today by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) paint a picture of a robust industry albeit one preparing for some adjustment. In its June 2013 life insurance statistics report the regulator has ...

End of QE sounds death knell for 'zombie' stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
The tapering of quantitative easing (QE) will burst the bubble in high-yielding 'zombie' stocks, according to UK-based Duncan Lawrie Private Bank's James Humphreys. Stimulus measures by central banks in Europe, the US and Japan have propped up global ...

Future Fund returns 12.8% for 2012

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
Improving global investment markets helped Australia's Future Fund gain more than $9 billion in 2012. The Future Fund, created in 2006 to invest retirement savings on behalf of Australia's public sector employees, also made a return of more than 12% ...

Franklin Templeton launches new global fixed income fund

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012
Franklin Templeton Investments Australia has launched a new global fixed income fund. Sitting at the more defensive end of the risk/return spectrum, the Franklin Templeton Global Aggregate Bond fund invests principally in fixed or floating rate debt ...