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Of population growth and surpluses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2009
... parameters, introducing new variables into the economic equation -- rendering forecasts especially those with longer time horizons so far off reality. Witness what happened to forecasts of surpluses in Australia as far as the eye can see. Back in the ...

Investment mandates to factor climate change

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
... respondents had changed or plan to alter their investment mandates to reflect climate change issues and longer investment horizons. The survey, which received responses from 31 super funds including the government backed Future Fund, also found 85 per ...

AMP planning school broadens intake

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... Northern Territory in its next intake. The next intake begins next week and the program starts in January. Tim Steele, AMP Horizons Financial Planning Academy director, said there is a strong demand for planners nationally had forced the academy to extend ...

AXA locks and loads

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2007
... facts are people aren't disciplined enough to do it," he said. The fund offers three levels of risk and different time horizons for the guarantee. The lowest risk level with the longest time horizon costs 0.7 per cent, rising to 2.45 per cent for the ...

Equities without borders

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2007
... bask on the phenomenal returns of Australian equities, Conlon said the time is ripe for local investors to expand their horizons. "It's easy to sit back when the Australian market's done fantastically well for the last three or four years and say 'Who ...

AMP launches new planner academy

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2007
... and placement programs, based at their new Financial Planning Academy in St Leonards, Sydney. The two programs, dubbed Horizons and Planner Pathway, are designed to take prospective planners from complete novices through to qualified professionals. The ...

Hedge and non-hedge collide

... specialist managers for certain parts of a typical client portfolio. Fellow speaker Paul Scully, managing director of Decision Horizons, concurred and said that "unbundling of investment processes" is one of the main investment trends driving the industry. ...

Navigator broadens its horizons

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2007
Navigator has announced its largest ever fund list increase, with 26 new funds available across the Navigator Personal Retirement Plan and the Personal Investment Plan. Responding to interest in more conservative, less accumulation-focused funds, Navigator ...

Euro private equity awaits

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2007
Private equity is a huge universe globally and Australian super funds would do well to broaden their horizons, according to privately owned European private equity and hedge fund of funds specialist Unigestion. "I think as far as [Australian] super ...

Fund of LaSalle funds will cut fees

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2007
... said. Richards also pointed out the yield compressions that were happening in some spaces and the need to have broad horizons as a property investment manager. "You've seen the traditional property sector - office, retail, industrial and residential ...