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Digital revamp for Citi wealth arm

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2017
... currently building 'total wealth access', a digital tool that allows clients to manage their investments and asset allocations, diversify, execute trades and track products. One area of success is webinars and video streaming which connects clients to ...

IOOF appoints new asset consultant

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
... and local manager research, their market insights and sophisticated systems in determining long-term strategic asset allocations, and holistic approach to dynamic asset allocation to support the team in the delivery of strong performance outcomes to ...

Investors torn over ESG capabilities

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2017
... pollution, and damaging fragile ecosystems today." Instead, Wong says that investors should not only adjust their asset allocations but look to engage with companies that produce and use fossil fuels to adopt more environmentally friendly corporate policies. ...

Tax breaks delivered to first home buyers

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... contributions over the long term," ISA chief executive David Whiteley said. "Funds will need to maintain more liquid asset allocations to deal with unpredictable withdrawals. There is merit in assisting first home buyers, but this is not the way." The ...

The case for internal investment teams

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
... choices. "We have flexibility in international management and we can make our own changes on the investment asset allocations ourselves. We don't need to go to any committee; we just need to convince ourselves that it is the right thing to do," Brindle ...

Super fund private equity demand growing

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
... be an illiquid asset and difficult to value market-to-market, which until most recently, led to rebalancing asset allocations and scaling back on private equity investments, he said. Casali commented that money is flowing back into the private equity ...

SMSF investors shift gears

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
... trustees have high growth expectations for the next 12 months yet more than 50% have moved to more defensive asset allocations amid continuing market volatility, the latest statistics from AMP Capital show. AMP Capital's Black Sky Report shows SMSF trustees ...

Australian pension market grows

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
... trillion). Comparatively, Japan and the UK have just 4% and 18% respectively. Australia has one of the highest asset allocations to growth assets - 49% of the total assets are invested in equities. Only the US, the largest pension market by assets for ...

SMSFs continue hunt for information

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2016
... in the past year. The SMSF Community offers those interested in SMSFs the opportunity to network, check their asset allocations via its Pulse tool and access educational materials. According to the statistics, the most popular topics this year included ...

MySuper lifecycle funds lead the pack

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2016
... in a 12 month positive return of 7.6%. The two-year net return is 6.4% per annum, Rainmaker said. Looking at asset allocations, the Rainmaker research shows MySuper single investment strategy products held an average 55% in equities and 18% in cash or ...