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Insurers face significant asset risk charges from downgrade

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2016
Life and general insurers face the risk of higher asset charges if a sovereign downgrade occurs, according to senior portfolio manager- fixed income at Nikko Asset Management, Darren Langer. In July Standard and Poor's Global Ratings (S&P) revised the ...

FIIG bolsters managed bonds service

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
... to take advantage of the professional management of investment grade bonds with a longer dated investment that generates yield from credit and interest rates via the Conservative Income strategy, while the "blend of fixed and floating rate bonds in the ...

EGFM launches new property fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016
EG Funds Management has launched a new close-ended, unlisted real estate fund. Yield Plus Infrastructure Fund No. 2 (YPI 2) raised just under $400 million in equity at first close with both domestic and offshore institutional investors. The fund manager ...

Younger Australians taking up SMSFs

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016
Three quarters of new SMSF members are aged below 55 and yield an average age of 46 years according to the latest industry research from Rainmaker. The data presents a strategic shift in the sector where most SMSFs are being established by younger people ...

Investors Mutual readying income focused LIC

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2016
... vehicle will replicate the successful Investors Mutual Equity Income Fund with an objective to deliver shareholders a dividend yield of 2% above that of the S&P/ASX 300 Index with lower levels of volatility. Dividends are expected to be paid on a quarterly ...

Global infrastructure outperforming equities and property

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2016
... global listed infrastructure team says the asset class has provided a high level of income over the longer-term and its yield has been a lot less volatile than global equities and global property. Maple-Brown Abbott portfolio manager Steven Kempler told ...

Northern Trust wins two NZ Super mandates

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
... be designed to tilt according to a range of criteria - such as value, size, quality, momentum and low volatility or high yield. The company first opened an office in Australia in 2007 to support its institutional investor clients across Australia and ...

Global ETPs see strong inflows

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
... ETP flows of $55.2 billion for the six months to end of June. The firm attributed the strong flows to higher investment in yield and asset categories less impacted by Brexit, with flows growing quickly in the first half of the month toward US and emerging ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2016
... monthly hours worked, the Westpac/MI Consumer Sentiment Expectations index and the Westpac /MI Unemployment Index. Also, "The yield curve spread exerted slightly more downward pressure over the period". "Momentum in the domestic economy, particularly ...

Investors missing healthy returns amid bond fears

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... have not changed. The diversifying role that fixed income plays in a portfolio, it still plays," he said. He added that the yield on its bond, in the form of coupons paid to the investor, is just one part of the overall return a bond manager can generate ...