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Instreet happy with growth at 5-year milestone

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
Instreet has grown to a point where protecting market share, rather than winning it, is the strategic priority, according to managing director George Lucas. The asset manager, which has more than $500 million in assets under management, is celebrating ...

Media Super backs Aussie film industry

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
'Save your legs!' is a comedy cocktail of cricket and Bollywood music, a new movie backed by Media Super. The superannuation industry fund for media and arts professionals keeps supporting the Australian film industry through investing and loan initiatives ...

SMSFs drive ASX growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
Self Managed Super Funds (SMSF) are boosting the health of the local bourse, with $165 billion of their assets invested in Exchange products, making up 38 per cent of total exchange assets. Exchange Traded Products (ETP) is on top of the SMSF product ...

MySuper still ontrack despite low license applications

ALEX DUNNIN, LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
The number of superannuation funds applying for a license to run a MySuper product is likely to fall well short of expectations, but rather than suggest MySuper is flawed policy, it highlights how it is fundamentally an internal industry issue rather ...

Big year in platforms and super: AMP Fin Services

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
While underlying profit rose modestly compared to 2011 figures, AMP Financial Services posted a $1.7 billion turnaround in net cash flows, buoyed by solid performance from its platforms and wealth management arms. AFS net cash flows recovered from a ...

Australia better long-term bet than the US

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
Smaller developed economies look far more attractive investment propositions than traditional global investment centres such as the US, Europe and Japan, according to BlackRock's global chief investment strategist Russ Koesterich. Addressing journalists ...

Instos on verge of piling into Asian bonds

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
Australian institutional bond investors are considering increasing their allocations to Asia Pacific, where record levels of bond issuance are broadening opportunities for diversification and relatively high returns. AllianceBernstein director of Asia ...

CFSGAM inflation plus fund targets post-retirement market

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
Outcome-orientated investment approaches that target a specified return are well suited to clients in the post-retirement phase of their investment journey, according to CFSGAM's multi asset solutions team. Head of multi asset solutions Epco van der ...

Rubik acquires Provisio

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
Rubik Financial, an ASX-listed global financial technology company, today announced a conditional agreement to acquire Provisio Software. Provisio is a significant player in the scaled and online advice markets providing software to large super fund ...

Quality of Spain and Poland belies credit rating

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
Poland, Chile and Spain look a better bet than the US and UK for institutional investors' sovereign debt portfolios, according to a new research report from AXA Investment Management. The investment house has developed a new framework for analysing ...