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FUM breaks through pre-GFC barrier

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2013
... fundamentally different dynamics at work in the respective markets, they said. Superannuation's faster post-GFC performance recovery has seen the sector now match up identically to the size of the FUM market, finishing March also with $1.576 trillion. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
... and Bank of England kept interest rates on hold and held off providing more monetary stimulus to the fragile economic recovery, dealers say. London's FTSE 100 index of top companies shed 1.30 per cent to finish at 6,336.11 points on Thursday, Frankfurt's ...

Super fund returns recovery rolls on

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
The recovery in super fund returns has continued apace in April 2013 as the SelectingSuper Workplace rolling 12 month default option index climbed again to 12.7%, its second highest level in three years. Explaining why rolling 12 month returns remain ...

Markets poised on knife-edge: Standard Life Investments

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... will see them remain in fixed income markets." Strong housing and auto sales figures have been interpreted as a sign of recovery in the US but the global strategist believes the point at which the Federal Reserve begins scaling back its stimulus program ...

Careful of the recession you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... managing Director Zhu Min who said in the same forum but in a separate interview that, America's economy "is still in the recovery phase, so maintaining the momentum of the growth is still a main issue". I feel good now. I'm not alone after all. But ...

Industry funds lead super growth in March quarter

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... (13.5%) to $1.58 trillion. During the March quarter, total assets increased by $68.4 billion or 4.5%. Driving the FUM recovery was strong investment income inflows that Rainmaker estimates were $137 billion across the superannuation market in the 12 ...

Fed speaks Fedspeak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... could lead interest rates to rise temporarily but would also carry a substantial risk of slowing or ending the economic recovery and causing inflation to fall further." No Fedspeak here too. It only became Fedspeak when Bernanke spoke and replied to ...

Variety of strategies needed for all-weather outperformance

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013
... the Philippines, Vietnam and Jakarta. Morphic is also holding a basket of US housebuilders as a play on the economic recovery. There is also a stringent focus on risk management and capacity issues. In building the business, Lowenstein says he aims to ...

It doesn't compute

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... of the FOMC voters' promise to keep monetary policy highly accommodative for a "considerable time after...the economic recovery strengthens". Just as I've written in a previous column, while there are some signs that the US economy is regaining strength ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... Australian bond futures prices are higher as investors continue to buy safe-haven assets amid concerns about the US economic recovery. US economic figures, released overnight, show a sharp jump in weekly jobless claims while the number of housing construction ...