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BTIM launches emerging market strategy

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012
... allocation as well as individual stock selection. When deciding on our country allocations, we examine a number of elements: analysis of a country's economic growth, monetary policy, market liquidity, currency, governance/politics and equity market valuation. ...

Market anxiety shrouds SMSF appetite for equities

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012
... Australian equities was up only 0.1% to 31.8%, despite the All Ordinaries being up 6.5% in the same period. Rainmaker Analysis reveals that the asset allocation from the Multiport survey implies that SMSFs would have earned 10% in the 12 months to end ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... meetings. The Australian Resources Conference is on in Western Australia and Reserve Bank of Australia's head of economic analysis Jonathan Kearns and Ray White deputy chairman Sam White speak about Australian house prices at an Australian Business Economists ...

Christian Super appoints State Street as custodian

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... having more information available to them than before and would help Christian Super meet industry standards for portfolio analysis. "Data management is an increasingly important challenge for Australia's superannuation industry," he said. "Funds are ...

Poisoned chalice awaits next US president

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... underlying fundamentals and the still relatively low yields available in the US Treasury market. Careful political and policy analysis will clearly be required here." Milligan added: "The possibility of new leadership on this issue - and its potential ...

SMSF members still happiest

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... evidence of their systemic outperformance. The Rainmaker SelectingSuper SMSF performance index, based on attribution analysis of SMSF sector wide asset allocation, returned 1% in 2011-12 and 6% pa over the past three years. These results match overall ...

Mortgage brokers told to target SMSFs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2012
... ability to borrow should push this allocation higher. Three quarters of this allocation is in commercial property, noted analysis of the sector by Rainmaker that was released earelier this year. Lee said the growth in the SMSF sector creates significant ...

More young Americans worried about retirement

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2012
... the older sons and daughters of the Baby Boomer generation," noted the PRC commentary on the survey findings. The PRC analysis noted that the reason for the heightened fears of retirement income sufficiency is falling net wealth due the Great Recession ...

Not long now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
... Australia's trading session had already called it off for the week when the US Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released the better-than-expected scorecard for the economy. But don't despair Virginia, we didn't miss much. Better ...

High frequency trading benefits: UK government

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
... trading can lead to market instability and periodic illiquidity.' He added: "There has been a relative lack of evidence and analysis to inform new regulations designed to increase market competition and protect consumers." In 2010 studies revealed that ...