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FEATURE: Inflation plus investing

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... for a number of years, "the member became lost in the process." He says that managers would set up strategic asset allocations, appoint one manager for each asset class and demand that each beat the benchmark. "They would be trying to beat the ASX200 ...

TCorp becomes $70bn investment giant

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... amalgamation. As the boards of the respective agencies retain responsibility for their investment objectives and asset allocations, TCorp will continue to work collaboratively to ensure we deliver outcomes that meet their needs." The amalgamation was ...

Exchange tradeable version of Magellan Global Fund announced

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... providing the $560 billion self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) sector with a means to better balance their asset allocations, Magellan said. Magellan's executive chairman Dr Brett Cairns said: "Data from the Australian Taxation Office highlights ...

Instos turn increasingly to real assets

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
... also delivering attractive yields in the current environment. The growing number and magnitude of recent real asset allocations clearly represents more than short-term, tactical decisions. We believe real estate, infrastructure and other real assets ...

New Vanguard modelling tool picks global equities to win

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... asset classes and risk factors, enabling the measurement of potential long term outcomes for different portfolio asset allocations. Outputs from the VCMM are drawn from modelling that encompasses a range of potential futures, not simply historical scenarios. ...

Instos too slow to make investment decisions

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... majority (41%) of those surveyed said that it would take their schemes three to four months to decide to change asset allocations and to develop a strategy to implement that change; however, 35% said that it would take more than six months to do so.A ...

SEC reopens target date funds disclosure review

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... the introduction of standardised risk measures to describe risk when illustrating glide paths' and underlying asset allocations, that target date funds more clearly explain their methodologies and how fees impact account balances. These recommendations ...

Credit to escape impending bond rout

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014
... exposure to the asset class while avoiding the worst of the rise in interest rates. "Our new SAAs [strategic asset allocations] have larger allocations to bonds with higher yields, such as emerging market bonds, US high yield credit, and short duration ...

NAB launches new set of real return portfolios

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013
... Plus portfolios there are now three portfolios with different time horizons and different CPI plus objectives. "Asset allocations within Inflation Plus shift more than traditional funds, providing the benefit of more reliable outcomes for retirees and ...

AMP adds new funds to North platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
... aims to provide a rate of investment growth similar to traditional diversified funds with comparable target asset allocations and it manages the level of short-term fluctuations across different market conditions by increasing or decreasing their exposure ...