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Abenomics strengthens investment ties with Japan

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... the currency has depreciated from 80 yen to a dollar in 2012 to 102 yen to a dollar today. Despite the strong rally, at 16 times price-to-earnings Beazley says that the market remains cheap and is still shy of its 50-year historic average. "The fast ...

VC funds outperform, punch above their weight

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... contrast to the low profile VC investing has in Australia, in the US the sector is much more mature with 24,000 companies - 48 times the number in Australia compared to the US Australia population ratio - having VC backing.

UK to consider Australia model for small pension fund mergers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... gathering for the UK government to follow in Australia's footsteps and merge small local authority pension funds after Financial Times research revealed huge disparities in fees paid to fund managers. According to the UK broadsheet, some councils are ...

Direct insurance races for advised market share

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... about 19% of the market share. Research found direct products are becoming similar to advised products, but that most of the times, direct insurance is cheaper. Direct insurance premiums for life cover is on average cheaper by approximately 25% at an ...

AllianceBernstein launches tail risk protection strategy

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... model. "We believe that TRP can help deliver balanced portfolios that cost-effectively reduce exposure to tail losses at times of market turbulence and which can also participate in market upside during more normal conditions," said DePalma.

Industry funds lead super growth in March quarter

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... inflows that Rainmaker estimates were $137 billion across the superannuation market in the 12 months to end March 2013, eight times higher than they were in the previous 12 month period when investment income inflows were only $17 billion. APRA's report ...

No scale effect in US endowment returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... results showing scale to be an affect for 2012 although, while returns for large $1 billion plus funds were almost three times the returns for small funds with less than $25 million, the differential was only 0.3% compared to 0.8%. Scale effects in domestic ...

Variety of strategies needed for all-weather outperformance

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013
... funds for its long/short Morphic Global Opportunities fund. "Different strategies work in different places at different times. That's why we are style agnostic," Lowenstein told Financial Standard. "At various points over the last 30 years every style ...

LGBT wealth management market worth $3trn

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... with specific skills in understanding the financial and legal needs of same sex couples. A report in FTfm, the Financial Times ' weekly funds management supplement, pointed to figures from the UK's Office for National Statistics which show that typical ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... Secretary Dr Martin Parkinson is scheduled to address the Australian Business Economists' lunch on Budgeting in Challenging Times. In equities news, Financial services company Thorn Group is due to post full year results and Ruralco Holdings its first ...