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Dividend stocks ideal for SMSFs

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... change from growing their pension pot to preserving it. Traditionally this has seen retirees move from higher risk equities to safe and reliable bonds. However, in the current environment, Legg Mason Australian equities chief investment officer, Reece ...

Falling gold price a buying opportunity

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
... more confident and investing in riskier assets again but if the eurozone does rear its again then having a allocation to a safe-haven like gold will help to insulate against some of the losses. It's a useful part of any portfolio," Laidler finished.

Bond investors beware interest rate risk

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
... these hidden risks." BlackRock recommends bond investors shorten their duration and emphasise higher yielding credit over 'safe' government bonds.

AvSuper appoints Perpetual for a $75m equities mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
AvSuper has appointed Perpetual Investments for a $75 million Australian equities mandate. This is the first appointment that the Canberra-based superannuation fund has done in the last year and it is also the first time that it does business with Perpetual. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... tonight," he said. "But that sort of thing reinforces the yield play and because an Italian election doesn't really affect the safe haven of a yield play." US stocks closed higher on Friday on renewed confidence that the US Federal Reserve stimulus program ...

Global listed property outperforms global equities by 8.6%

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
Due to investor appetite for yield and safe-haven sectors, global listed property had significantly outperformed most major asset classes during 2012, a research paper reveals today. While fund performance has been impressive in an absolute sense, the ...

Retirement costs on the rise again

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
The cost of living a modest retirement has risen faster than the overall rate of inflation, according to new research from the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) released today. The cost of a 'comfortable' retirement has risen 2% ...

Risk control software targets HFTs

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
Global trading platform provider InfoReach claims its new software can significantly reduce the risk of high frequency trading systems going haywire. The group says that recent multi-million dollar losses in the capital markets, such as the so-called ...

There's no bubble in bond markets: Tyndall AM

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... pointed to three factors why bonds should remain attractive for the foreseeable future: global risk aversion, a lack of other safe haven assets and ongoing loose monetary policy in major developed markets. "The flow of money into the bond market is not ...

Beggar me not my neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
... function of the slowdown in the second and third quarter economy. And of course, there's also the strong A$. Its new-found safe-haven status has prevented it from doing what it historically did -- that of shielding the local economy from international ...