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Challenger sees sustained interest in lifetime annuities

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... assets under management fell by $200 million to $10.7 billion. Challenger put this down to maturity of the $300 million High Yield Fund annuity, which was partly offset by retail annuity net book growth of $200 million. Challenger chief executive Brian ...

Professor proposes cheap longevity insurance design

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... solution is the 'return contingent life annuity'. "The problem is not that people don't want to buy it because they look at the yield and they see it's too low; it's not that they don't want to buy because there's no death benefit; it's bloody expensive. ...

ASIC approves Managed Accounts IPO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... intends to pay, on a quarterly basis, an unfranked dividend of $0.08 cents per share for FY2015. This translates to a 4% yield on the offer price of $0.20 cents per share.

Multi-asset portfolios key for retiree income

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
... portfolio is the best option. "It's become increasingly difficult to get a good level of income through traditional assets. High yield credit and emerging market debt have higher yields but you have to take the rough with the smooth," he said, noting ...

Folkestone acquires Maxim property boutique

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... acquired boutique property fund manager Maxim Asset Management (Maxim), a specialist in listed real estate securities and high yield real estate debt. Maxim was co-founded by Winston Sammut in 2003. Sammut has more than 30 years' experience in investment ...

The art of fighting without fighting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
Only 2 economists out of the 57 in Bloomberg's survey and just 2 - perhaps the same 2 - out of 72 economist polled by Reuters got it wrong. Think it's safe to say that these two economists (or four, in case they aren't the same two) expected the European ...

Bubbling bubble?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
With one more trading day left to go, seems like Q1 would end... nowhere. There were some fresh data out of the US overnight but they provided nada direction for Wall Street. The third estimate of US real GDP growth was revised higher from an annual ...

Australian investors optimistic of hitting financial goals

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
An 'overwhelming majority' of Australian investors are optimistic about reaching their financial goals, according to the Franklin Templeton Global Investor Sentiment Survey conducted earlier this year. Australian investors expect their average annual ...

Quicker and faster hikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
What's she done now? All this commotion... and just at her first ever meeting chairing the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). The S&P 500 index fell by as much as 1.2% and yields on 10-year US Treasuries spiked by as much as 12 basis points overnight ...

Pickle wrapped in a bind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
The verdict is in, Crimeans have decided... what now? Surprise of surprises Virginia! Exit polls following Sunday's Crimean referendum showed that 93% of voters voted to secede from Ukraine and return to Russia with love. Ukraine's new government, Europe ...