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AustralianSuper posts solid quarter

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
... other asset classes by the end of the year. Currently it is only the stable option that holds 25.9 per cent in cash, well above all other options where the cash asset allocation ranges between 21.9 per cent (conservative balanced) and 3.3 per cent (high ...

Future Fund returns 7.5pc

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
... with a quarterly return for each of at 1.4 per cent. Over the last 12 months, each of the funds returned 5.2 per cent, just above their benchmark return of 5 per cent.

Downgrade me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... upper house of parliament last summer." Surely, Japan will not be the last to receive a downgrade. Read S&P's statement above again. Now substitute US- or many other European countries for that matter - for Japan, it still works, doesn't it? But is this ...

Levy disaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2011

Investors miss wealth signposts

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2011
... included the ability to have the mortgage reduced, ideally to nothing, by retirement while super contributions should be made above the required well before actual retirement is on the horizon. Finally, Philpot said that gearing is also a useful strategy ...

Aussies embrace US real estate

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2010
... directly is no easy feat for the Australian investor. Taxes are often higher and more complicated than one would expect, and above all else, the US real estate market is an entirely different animal to our own. The meltdown in the US housing market is ...

Perpetual sees 8pc upside for ASX200

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
Perpetual sees the potential for an 8 per cent upside in the ASX200 next year. That might seem modest, but it would be above average, according to data stretching back more than a century. According to Perpetual, the average price return of the Australian ...

Perpetual raises $170 million for mortgage fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
... investors and takes senior, secured exposure over income producing property in Australia. It has a target return of 4 per cent above the bank bill rate. Richard Brandweiner, group executive, income and multi-sector, said the fund will be looking to make ...

Changes ahead for WA govt super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
... is Australia's 15th biggest super fund with $10 billion in assets. It's investment performance is currently significantly above average with the fund's balanced option posting returns to end October 2010 of 8 per cent compared to a Rainmaker-SelectingSuper ...

Green light for global equities surge: Bell Potter

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
... run up," he said. A 60 per cent increase from current levels would see our own index venturing into uncharted territory above the 7,000 mark, and it also would see the US S&P500 rising above 2000 - levels well above the previous peaks for both indices ...