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Liquidity concerns push CSC to change target allocation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
Commonwealth Super Corporation (CSC), trustee for the Public Sector Super Scheme, has made changes to its default option in response to the Stronger Super reforms that require improved operational risk reserves. The CSC made the changes to lift its ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
Australian shares are a little weaker as the market follows Wall street into negative territory. Still, IG market strategist Chris Weston said, the futures market had been expecting an even worse session in the US, where the broad-based S&P 500 finished ...

AllianceBernstein launches tail risk protection strategy

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
Tail risk, or the risk of suffering losses greater than statistically normal ranges, is a much greater threat to portfolios than volatility, global asset manager AllianceBernstein warns. Tail risk takes its name from the shape of the bell curve, in ...

Retirees could benefit from a vibrant annuities market

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
At the Actuaries Summit held in Sydney this week, Professor Anthony Asher of the Actuaries Institute's Retirement Income Working Group stressed the need to develop a "vibrant annuity market", in line with much of the rest of the world. "It's very difficult ...

The day the music died

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
"Bye, bye miss American pie..." and pastries from Japan and China. Equity markets from New York to Rio and old London town dropped like flies over the past 24 hours. It would have been easy to put this down to the usual garden variety correction were ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher despite falls on major overseas markets following Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony to congress and the release of the central bank's policy meeting minutes. At 0750 AEST on Friday, the ...

Tides to turn for Platinum: Neilson

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
Platinum Asset Management's (Platinum) chief executive Kerr Neilson is confident that the fund will be able to turn around a period of underperformance in its flagship International Fund, saying that the current state of the market has turned to favour ...

MySuper puts focus on active tax management investing

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013

Planner and investor concern hits three-year low

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
A drop in investor concern to its lowest level during any point in the global financial crisis (GFC) has prompted a wave of investment into managed funds, according to a new survey from Investment Trends. The March 2013 Planner Direct Equities and SMA ...

Bendigo Wealth launches new low-risk income fund

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
Bendigo Wealth has launched the Sandhurst Strategic Income Fund for risk-averse investors who want a regular income stream in excess of what they are seeing from their term-deposits. The new fund is a low-risk investment option which pays quarterly ...