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Investors can expect "reasonable" year despite gloom

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016
... opportunistic investors. Addressing advisers' concerns about placing client funds in bonds amid the chances for a price correction, Bovingdon said fear of negative returns were largely overstated. "We think rate rises will be very muted and only an inflation ...

SMSFs hurt more than APRA funds in downturn

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2015
The SMSF segment of the superannuation system suffered more in the recent market correction, the latest APRA figures for the September quarter show. Total super assets dropped in the September quarter by 1.6% from $2.03 trillion to $1.99 trillion. For ...

Australia back on the radar for international capital

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
... equity market. When the Federal Reserve raised rates in February 1994, after a long period of easing, there was a 9% correction in US equities. Following the June 2004 rate hike there was an 8% correction. In a media briefing at AMP's headquarters in ...

PROFILE: REI Super chief executive Mal Smith

DARREN SNYDER, LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
... pretty challenging because a lot of members realised that they were less risk tolerant that they thought. Before the correction, everyone thought they were happy with volatility in their returns. But really what we found is that when markets started ...

Future Fund issues return warning

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... expectations for the period ahead. "We are pleased with how the portfolio has operated during a period when there was a large correction in Australian equities and increased volatility generally," Costello said. "Again, we reiterate that going forward ...

Reversal of fortunes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... 30 September. "Bloody Monday" (24 August) - the day the All Ords dropped by more than 4%, S&P 500 index went into a correction, Chinese equities recorded their biggest one-day dive since June 2007, Germany's bourse fell into a bear market, commodity ...

CORRECTION: AFA COO joins netwealth

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... Limperis as head of human resources. Both of them joined from the Colonial First State custom solutions executive team. CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Anderson has replaced Simon Micallef's role within netwealth. ...

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
"Danger, Will Robinson!" Danger! Danger! Pick a stock market, any stock market, chances are it is now in correction territory - Dow, Stoxx 600, FTSE-100, All Ords, Strait Times, Jakarta Composite, Taiex, KLCI, PSEi - or in a bear market -- Hang Seng ...

China impossible to ignore for asset managers

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
Vanguard Asia-Pacific head of investment strategy group, Jeffrey Johnson, said China is a market that is impossible for investors to ignore despite its economy continuing to slow. Speaking at an Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) ...

Greece, China damage global hedge fund returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
Hedge fund returns have been hit by the Chinese market correction and by the Greek debt crisis, a global Eurekahedge report for June 2015 showed. After five months of consecutive gains, hedge funds posted their first monthly loss this year in June ...