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Getting ideas across to SMSFs the first battle: AMP

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... you've got to sit down and have a more sophisticated dialogue around it. What I see is, after fees, I will give you bonds plus 3.5%. So I have a target return in there which has a positive number that I am always trying to meet." He said the anti-fee ...

Wall Street slips on oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
"Plus ASa change, plus c'est la mAame chose!" Pardon my french, Virginia. But nah, I'm not swearing... it's an honest to goodness French phrase that translates to "the more things change, the more they stay the same." This came to my balding head as ...

Abbott eyes Canadian pension money

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... 'asset recycling fund'. Canadian pension funds are already significant investors in global infrastructure. The C$140 billion plus Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, for example, allocates 22% of its portfolio to real assets, $11.7 billion of which is in ...

Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... ticked down in April from March's 11.8% but at 11.7% remains close to all-time highs... and this hides depression-like 20%-plus rates of joblessness in member nations like Spain (25.9% overall with youth unemployment at 53.9%) and Greece (26.5% overall ...

So bad it's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014
... durable goods orders came in better than expected; Richmond Fed manufacturing survey reversed sign from minus 7 in March to plus 7 in April; the S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city house price index came in more than expected in March (so did the FHFA measure of ...

In with the old, out with the new

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... durable goods orders came in better than expected; Richmond Fed manufacturing survey reversed sign from minus 7 in March to plus 7 in April; the S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city house price index came in more than expected in March (so did the FHFA measure of ...

The name is bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... durable goods orders came in better than expected; Richmond Fed manufacturing survey reversed sign from minus 7 in March to plus 7 in April; the S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city house price index came in more than expected in March (so did the FHFA measure of ...

Watching you watching me watching you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
... the Dow's down 1.2% and the Nasdaq's down 0.4%. Should have gone away in May, eh! This year to date, the S&P 500 index's plus 1.3%; the Dow's minus 1.2%; the Nasdaq's minus 1.9%. The latest spin spun by the spinmeisters is it's because of the small caps ...

MLC awards $1 billion Aussie equities mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... awarded the mandate to Redpoint Investment Management, which will manage the strategy within MLC's Horizon 2 - 7 and Inflation Plus portfolios. MLC Australian equities portfolio manager Peter Sumner said that Redpoint was awarded the mandate "because ...

Qantas Super appoints new investment adviser

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... consultants for the investment committee and the investments team. Qantas Super has been operating since 1939 and has 33,000-plus members and assets of more than $6 billion.