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China's growth unsustainable: Australian Economic Review

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2007
... report stated that while the Chinese government has already adopted a comprehensive program aimed at achieving a more balanced and sustainable growth pattern, its success hinges on its ability to balance short-term high growth and long-term structural ...

Industry funds and master trusts share top honours

CHRIS NICHOLLS AND ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2007
... per cent, 13.9 per cent and 9.2 per cent over one, three and five years respectively. In allocated pension funds, their Balanced Option Index returned 13.0 per cent, 14.3 per cent and 9.4 per cent over one, three and five years respectively. The researcher ...

HFA absolute return fund approved by S&P

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2007
... term. In this fashion, the HFA OGF can be used in both alternatives strategy and international equity components of a balanced portfolio." Investors should be aware of the level of fees associated with this type of product, Scott said. "There are multiple ...

ACT Govt to announce investment review

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2007
... regular super fund its 16.5 per cent return last year would put it near the top of the table compared to the average balanced super fund with 14.5 per cent before fees and taxes. Over the three years though their 13.8 per cent per annum return matches ...

BT head of alternatives departs, new role created

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2007
... strategies team is a newly realigned team responsible for managing BT's diversified portfolios, including the group's balanced and hedge fund products, exposure management and quantitative research function," he said. "Apart from his portfolio management ...

Virgin Super zooms to top quartile

... July 2005, Virgin Super offers two products, one for individuals and another for businesses. Their Life Stage Tracker Balanced 40s Mix option for both gained 14.1 per cent in the year ending 31 December 2006, compared to its comparable benchmark, the ...

Everything old is new again, now: Schroders

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2007
... talk about things in a lot more sophisticated ways now but when you look at our asset allocations compared to the old balanced funds they're not that different," he said. Further, returns over 10 years for balanced funds, he said, had bettered the average ...

Time to talk about asset classes: MTAA Super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
... agnostic'. But it's hard to explain this in a PDS," he said. According to SelectingSuper, the AAA-rated MTAA Super's default balanced option is ranked number one over three and five years and number six over the 12 months to end December. Following a ...

Zurich expands super and allocated pension menus

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2007
... Allocated Pension. The six new investment options are the ING Wholesale Capital Stable Trust, the Perpetual Wholesale Balanced Growth, the Investors Mutual Australian Share Fund, the Advance Imputation Wholesale Units Fund, the RREEF Global (ex Aust) ...

Optimum gets a pre-Christmas product upgrade

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2006
... is much more mixed as the reasonable performing choices are weighed down by some quite weak choices. In the flagship balanced sector however not one of their balanced choices matched the market benchmark over one, three or five years to end September ...