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SMSFs must increase global equities investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016
... paperwork and a lack of good company research have traditionally presented hurdles for investors seeking to own international shares directly. Yet managed portfolio benefits include direct asset ownership, access to dividends, administrative ease, and ...

ASIC takes Macquarie to court over van Eyk fund

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2016
... Wales. ASIC's legal action relates to Macquarie's role as the responsible entity for the van Eyk Blueprint International Shares Fund and $30 million of investments in it being directed to a Cayman Islands-based fund, the Artefact Partners Global Opportunities ...

IOOF WealthBuilder options get highest Lonsec ratings

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
... portfolio options: Fidelity - Australian Shares Core, Perpetual - Australian Shares Long Short and Magellan - International Shares. The 'Highly Recommended (Index)' rating was given to two of IOOF WealthBuilder's equity portfolio options: Vanguard - ...

ETF revenue doubling every 18 months

JOHN DYALL  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2016
... which is an annual rate of nearly $6 million on current assets. Compare this with the Vanguard MSCI Index International Shares ETF (VGE) which charges 0.18%pa. While it has around half the funds ($178 million) it had good inflows of $162 million and ...

Economic experts still defensive in 2016

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
... outlook for inflation was being affected by lower commodity prices. The panel thought a benchmark allocation to international shares still appeared the best option and 2016 will likely see more of the sharp spikes in investor anxiety and market volatility ...

SMSFs and growth funds hit hardest by sell-off

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... returned 9.28% on average each year with 28 of the 31 years being positive. "Asset classes like Australian and international shares experience periods of negative returns from time to time however often recover quite strongly after these periods of volatility," ...

AustralianSuper merges investment options

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... efforts. The industry super fund will close its Australian Fixed Interest, International Fixed Interest and International Shares (Hedged) investment options on 28 January 2016. The two fixed interest options will be replaced by the Diversified Fixed ...

Magellan top earning ETP

JOHN DYALL  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
The top earning international shares exchange traded product (ETP) didn't even exist 12 months ago. Its category didn't even exist. It's totally unlike nearly every other ETP on the market. It's not an index product and it's not a smart beta product. ...

FEATURE: The great race to invest

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
... very well, but that SMSFs had lots of Australian exposure. So we made sure that they had more exposure to international shares, property and infrastructure," he explains. Lately, the firm has been concerned with "people coming to us heavily invested ...

Appetite for international shares up 50% with major broker

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
CommSec, Australia's largest online broker, has seen a sharp increase in demand for foreign owned shares. The number of customers opening up international trading accounts has grown almost 50% in the past six months, compared to the preceding half year ...