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Super funds at a 34-month high

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013
The recovery in super fund returns is continuing with the SelectingSuper Workplace default option index climbing again to a 34-month high of 12.6% by end February 2013. Super fund returns over the past year are now so strong that they are three times ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
Australian stocks have opened firmer, with a recovery among the big miners leading the broader market higher. Local investors took their cues from a positive night on Wall Street, where the Dow climbed 0.77 per cent. Among the major miners, BHP was ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
... composite had dropped 3.74 points to 1,552.48. The stock market has surged this year as investors became encouraged by a recovery in the housing market and a pickup in hiring. Strong corporate earnings and continuing economic stimulus from the Federal ...

Magellan wins $3bn milestone mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... to the global equity strategy," he said. Magellan's portfolio invests in 25 companies and focuses on the United States recovery, the growth of the consumer market in China and new technologies. "Positive signs in the US such as unemployment recovering ...

Hedge fund inflows set to double

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2013
... wouldn't be surprised if inflows grew to US$75 billion this year." He added that with the global economy showing signs of recovery, many institutions are reluctant to take risk off the table but are looking to alternative strategies to hedge out some ...

More than five minutes this time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
... raised the consumption tax from 3% to 5% back in late 1997/early 1998. It also snuffed the life out of the gathering recovery back then. GDP growth peaked at 3.3% in Q1 1997 before giving way to almost two years of contraction in 1998 and 1999. But what ...

Former Hunter Hall managers gather new FUM in Morphic

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... that country so we will have to use the overlay to take away the country risk," Lowenstein told Financial Standard. The recovery in the US economy and especially in the housing market appealed to Morphic so the US market plays a part in their portfolio. ...

Investors overlook US recovery

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
Investors are underestimating the strength of the US recovery, according to MFS Investment Management's Robert Manning, who believes the success of the world's largest economy will drive stock market returns globally. Manning, who is chairman and chief ...

Green, green grass of home

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... poised to surpass the 2007 peak of $90 a share in the third quarter after surging from $7 in March 2009, the quickest recovery since at least 1900, according to data from S&P and Yale University's Robert Shiller compiled by Bloomberg. The gap between ...

Funds delivering 12.5% for past 12 months

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
Super fund returns continued their recovery during January 2013 as the SelectingSuper Workplace default option index climbed again to now be on a 34-month high of 12.5%. This is a 12 percentage point jump in seven months. As in June last year, returns ...