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Challenger annuity sales grow 12 per cent

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... percentage of total Life investment assets increased from 23% to 25% over the quarter with an offsetting reduction in fixed income, largely due to Life's property portfolio remix. "This property allocation is expected to decrease due to $0.3 billion ...

UBS releases mFund basket

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... Microcap Fund, UBS HALO Australian Share Fund, UBS Australian Bond Fund, UBS Diversified Credit Fund, UBS Diversified Fixed Income Fund, UBS Tactical Beta Fund - Balanced, UBS Tactical Beta Fund - Growth, UBS Tactical Beta Fund - Conservative, UBS Clarion ...

ETF inflows defy choppy markets

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... Australian equities strategies (about average) and 32% ($163 million) into international equities (below average). Fixed income and cash had higher flows than normal, with 23% ($115 million) of the monthly net inflows compared with a 12 month average ...

Reversal of fortunes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... interest rate policy) into NIRP (negative interest rate policy). Only last week, BT Investment Management head of fixed income and fixed interest Vimal Gor joined Ray Dalio (founder of Bridgewater Associates) and Peter Schiff (Chairman of SchiffGold ...

SPIVA report shows most active managers beaten by index again

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... as of December 31, 2014. Nine out of 10 active funds (89.55%) underperformed the benchmark over five years. In the fixed income space, not a single active Australian bond fund outperformed its benchmark over a one-year period and only 13.73% beat the ...

SMAs on Macquarie Wrap pass $100m milestone

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... can hold term deposits, managed funds, domestic ASX listed securities, international listed securities, domestic fixed income and SMAs. Find out more about managed accounts at the annual Financial Standard Best Practice Forum on Managed Accounts to be ...

Ellerston named hedge fund of the year

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... manager award for the Qato Capital Market Neutral Long/Short Fund. Acadian (long/short), AQR (global macro), Laminar (fixed income and credit), AMP (multi strategy) and Henderson (best off-shore) won the other category awards. Ellerston's Mark Bennett ...

Multimillionaires still love property above everything else

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... lowered over the last year from 33.1% in 2014. The rest of their allocation is in equities (26.5%), cash (21.6%), fixed income (9.5%) and alternatives (11.65%). Of HNW's alternative investments, 23.6% is in private equity. The report surveyed wealthy ...

State Street appoints APAC markets head

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... research for the Asia-Pacific region. Colin Zhong joined State Street from UBS, where he specialised in "currency and fixed income rates products in locations including Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and New York," according to State Street's statement. ...

Retirees should expand asset classes

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... retirees should consider balancing their asset allocation between three building blocks - equity income, real assets and fixed income - to ensure adequate capital preservation, income generation and inflation protection. He said fixed income provides ...