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HOSTPLUS nearly ready for SMSF infra investments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), the fund's chief investment officer Sam Sicilia has said. The option will allow SMSF investors to take advantage of HOSTPLUS' scale as an institutional investor to access unlisted infrastructure investments. "The ...

Investors Mutual gets in on LIC act

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... their advisers. "We want to offer a ready-made portfolio of shares which offers diversification outside of what SMSF investors already own. Some of the other portfolios available on the ASX can leave investors highly concentrated in the biggest stocks," ...

SMSF members getting younger

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... has changed drastically in the last nine months with 62.1% aged between 34 and 54, compared to only 36.6% of the SMSF investors in July last year. Those aged 25-34 now make up 11.1% of all SMSF members, compared to 4.0% a year ago. This translates to ...

Second PM Capital LIC now trading on ASX

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... growing in affluence," he said. PM Capital chief executive Chris Donohoe said the global LICs were attractive to SMSF investors who require greater diversification to offshore equities. Donohoe thanked brokers Ord Minnett, Taylor Collison, CBA Equities ...

New business targets investors' bad habits

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... lower, as least in the short to medium-term." As a recent report by Legg Mason showed, Australian individual and SMSF investors have a number of habits that may not be in their best interest, such as a pronounced preference for domestic over global equities ...

AMP gives SMSFs access to property and corporate bonds

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... outlay. The AMP Capital Wholesale Australian Property Fund and the AMP Capital Corporate Bond Fund are aimed at SMSF investors who want to diversify their portfolios without investing directly in the asset classes. The property fund has a minimum investment ...

Macquarie Flexi 100 open for investment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
... for investment until Monday 30 June 2014, with a minimum investment of $25,000, and is targeted at individual and SMSF investors.

SMSFs still under-invested in global shares

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... rate and consistency that would be difficult for all but a handful of Australian companies to achieve. Tuck says SMSF investors who lack the necessary knowledge to invest directly in global shares should consider having their portfolio professionally ...

ASIC: no plans for SMSF balance threshold

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... property spruikers that are using a "conference" type arrangement with advisers, trustees and auditors to entice SMSF investors. According to Tanzer ASIC's jurisdiction with respect to real propertyA "was very limited."A However, if the investment was ...

SMSFs eye offshore assets

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
... non-self-managed counterparts. According to the latest Certitude Global Investing Intentions Index (CGIII) report, 50% of SMSF investors who plan to invest offshore plan to do so in the next three months. High net worth investors have also signaled their ...