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Small cap fund opens to retail investors

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... range of investors. The fund invests mainly in ASX-listed small caps and its objective is to deliver a total return of CPI plus 7.5%, as well as to outperform the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Accumulation Index after fees and costs over five-year periods. ...

Go flip a coin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... fluctuations. This is where the "core" inflation rate - the RBA's preferred measure -- comes into play. But both the "trimmed mean" (plus 2.3% yoy) and the "weighted median" (plus 2.4%) measures remain in the middle of the RBA's inflation target band ...

Life insurance risk inflows reach $14.2bn

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... annual risk sales. The life insurance risk market is comprised of both individual risk lump sum and risk income insurances plus group risk insurance. Statistics in the report represented funds that flow through life companies' statutory funds, excluding ...

Q1 earnings expectations get rub down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... Thompson, for instance, expects the S&P 500 companies' net earnings to drop by 3% year-on-year for the March quarter (from plus 3.7% in the December quarter) and revenues down by 1.5% (from plus 3%). If you think this is no good, try John Butters' -- ...

'Brexit' betting booths now taking bets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... of 2017." Opposition Labour Party leader Ed Miliband won't Brexit but proposes to increase the top income tax rate to 50% plus a levy on bankers' bonuses, among others. Mark Carney's life may just become less easy after 7 May whoever wins. I wonder who ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... with prices sinking back on the reality of continued high supplies and a strong dollar. "(But) we could easily finish on the plus today," Mr Heffernan said. "Our market is on strong momentum upwards, particularly stocks with US drivers like CSL and Cochlear. ...

VicSuper launches next-gen admin platform with Bravura

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... administration platform is designed to streamline processing, reconciliation and reporting functionalities for the $14 billion, plus-240,000-member fund. It also facilitates single-client member data views and efficient contribution investments. "VicSuper ...

It might just be a matter of time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... off - Wall Street not happy camper. Weaker-than-expected and third consecutive monthly decline in retail spending in Feb plus second straight month of minus business sales growth (and unwanted stockpile of inventories) in January equal longer Fed patience ...

AFA and PFL award Australia's top insurers

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... was OnePath's Income Secure Professional Plan. Finalists were MLC's Income Protection Platinum Plan, BT's Income Protection Plus Plan and CommInsure's Income Care Plus Plan. Risk Product Innovation winner was BT Financial Group's Key Person Income Insurance. ...

MLC multi-manager funds get highest rating

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... Armitage said. "It shows ongoing support for our range of multi-manager solutions including our retirement focused MLC Inflation Plus portfolios, and our dynamic investment philosophy and robust portfolio construction process that we have built over ...