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Investors flee Aussie equities, turn to international

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... growing more strongly." Vanguard has seen flows of $58 million into its recently-launched Vanguard MSCI Index International Shares ETF (VGS), which tracks global stocks ex-Australia. At the same time, iShares' S&P 500 ETF has become the second ETF in ...

ASX builds fund supermarket

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... says. Christoe says 84% of the market capitalisation in LICs is in Australian shares, as compared to 12% for international shares. Yet he says 40% of the turnover in LICs in June was in international shares. New money coming into ETFs has raised about ...

Shares increasingly popular for Gen Y

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... sectors and today this extends beyond domestic share ownership, with 5% of the Australian population now owning international shares. Overall, 33% of Australians over the age of 18 (an estimated 5.94 million people) now hold shares directly compared ...

SMSFs gear up for advice

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015
... portfolios, low interest rates are driving interest in asset classes outside of cash, such as fixed interest and international shares." SMSF Association chief executive Andrea Slattery said another interesting finding was the focus on risk by those trustees ...

Australian Ethical to list on mFunds platform

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
... of $500. Australian Ethical's range of products with wholesale classes has also increased to include the International Shares Funds and the Cash Funds. Australian Ethical's funds under management reached $1 billion in November last year.

AvSuper adds new investment option

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... some exposure to growth assets. Initially the fund will allocate roughly 28% to Australian shares and 17% to international shares. There's a 19% allocation to defensive alternatives and 11% in cash. The remaining 25% of the portfolio is made up of property ...

SMSF allocation to Aussie equities hits year-low

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... Self-managed super fund (SMSF) allocation to Australian equities has dropped to a year-low, as investment in international shares increases. The latest AMP-owned Multiport SMSF Investment Patterns Survey shows that allocation to Australian equities dropped ...

Australia underperforms as China slows down: Russell

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... 10-year return on Australian equities fell from 9.2% to 7.1% at the end of 2014. On the other hand, hedged international shares overtook Australian equities and they were the strongest performing asset over a 10-year period, delivering 7.8% per annum ...

Pengana partners with queen of small caps

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... one of the few places expected to show strong growth over the coming years. "Even though local demand for international shares has been increasing, not much of this has gone into specialised small cap funds, in part due to the lack of high quality global ...

Retail super bounces back

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... January bounced up from 5% at end December to 12% at end January just as the rolling 12 month returns for international shares jumped from 15% to 20%. Domestic and international bonds meanwhile posted returns of 10% and 12% fuelled by falling interest ...