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FEATURE: Quenching the thirst for income

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
... portfolio boosting benefits of income-paying investments. But understanding the many options available can be complicated. Mark Smith looks at the pros and cons of each of the main asset classes. There has scarcely been a more important time to talk ...

Ratings downgrade to trigger hybrid sell-off

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
An impending Standard & Poor's downgrade of bank hybrids will drive the value of these investments, which have already seen recent falls, even lower, according to fixed income specialists FIIG Securities. The ratings agency said it will downgrade the ...

IFM Investors appoints senior Vanguard executive

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
IFM Investors has appointed former Vanguard executive Julie Andrews as director of business development. Andrews was previously head of institutional sales at Vanguard and before was a director at index provider FTSE in Australia. Her appointment follows ...

Trilogy Funds makes $9m property investment

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
Property fund manager Trilogy Funds will buy an $8.95 million commercial property in Melbourne's north-west. 271-279 Robinsons Road in Ravenhall was constructed in 2011 by Pellicano Group as part of their northwest Orbis Business Park. The three-level ...

ASX celebrates record revenues

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
ASX chairman Rick Holliday-Smith has used his annual general meeting to celebrate what he called the company's "record revenues and earnings", and to urge shareholders to vote in favour of chief executive Elmer Funke Kupper's remuneration package. He ...

Cutting edge data tool finds super members most likely to defect

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
The latest generation of data analytics software can tell super fund bosses who is most likely to leave their fund, and what to do to make them stay. Dr David Black is head of advanced analytics at Empirics. With over 10 years of academic experience ...

BNP Paribas granted on-shore renminbi licence

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
The asset management arm of BNP Paribas has been granted a RMB Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (RQFII) license by the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC). The license will enable BNP Paribas Investment Partners to provide its clients ...

Aluminum windows and ferries: the case for small-cap investing

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... manager Grant Oshry said. Oshry manages the Perennial Value Smaller Companies Trust along with portfolio manager Andrew Smith. The trust has earned 10.6% per annum after fees since its inception in March 2002 and has delivered a 23.8% return after fees ...

BetaShares launches US equity ETF

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
BetaShares has launched a new US equity income focused exchange traded fund (ETF). The BetaShares S&P 500 Yield Maximiser Fund (managed fund) will trade under the ASX code UMAX and aims to provide investors with exposure to S&P 500 companies, while ...

Hedge fund allocators pick unstable funds

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
In terms of hedge fund size, there is a sweet spot in which it is easiest to operate, but which the vast majority of allocators are ignoring, according to FRM chief investment officer Keith Haydon. Addressing representatives of the Australian and global ...