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Tassie RBF awards GAM $100m mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
The Tasmanian public sector superannuation fund, the Retirement Benefits Fund (RBF), has invested $100 million in the GAM Absolute Return Bond Defensive Fund. GAM's unconstrained bond strategy is a "go-anywhere" bond fund which, via the use of derivatives ...

Milliman seeing shift in bond portfolios

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
Holding high quality bonds in an attempt to generate income and offset volatility and drawdowns in the stock market was an approach that served investors well leading up to the financial crisis. Low yields and interest rates mean bonds now offer less ...

Greens strike pension test deal with coalition

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... how assets are held for people who are close to receiving the health card. "Money held in an insurance bond does not generate assessable income and therefore does not contribute income to the assessable amount of those applying for the health card," ...

SMSF investors reducing cash and shares

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... small proportion of total investments, representing less than 10% of the mix. "Property requires a long-term horizon to generate a return: about 10 years, but decades are better.A This is why property remains a relatively small proportion of the overall ...

BT pays fines for misleading super statements

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
Australia's corporate watchdog said BT Funds Management recently paid more than $20,000 in fines. An Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) statement said BT paid two infringement notices for misleading statements contained in the online ...

QIC asks government to step up, break toxic cycle

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
The government should step up and introduce fiscal stimulus to the economy to break a dangerous cycle of low consumer confidence and low investment as Chinese demand plummets, QIC said. QIC chief economist Matthew Peter painted a gloomy outlook of the ...

Ghost fund flogger banned

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
A Queensland businessman has been banned from providing financial services for four years for promoting a fund that did not exist. Paul Duncan was the sole director of Active Capital Managers, which advertised on its website an Exalt Managed Futures ...

YBR launches robo-advice platform

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
Yellow Brick Road is launching GURU, a robo-advice platform that generates a holistic financial "roadmap." GURU is the first step in YBR's new low-cost advice model, and it can factor in savings, investments, liabilities, insurance and financial goals ...

Internalisation has gone the full circle say CIOs

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
... Hartley, said internalisation had already gone the full circle at some funds. "As funds get bigger and bigger globally they generate scale benefits. The question for a CIO is how we harvest those scale benefits," Hartley said. "Some people say internal ...

Top bankers get together for pro bono venture

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... bankers will join as panel members and will advise the Adara Group on a select number of transactions and mediations to generate fees that will benefit people in developing countries. The Adara Group was founded by Suncorp non-executive director Audette ...