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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... Australia's (RBA) interest rate decision due at 1430 AEDT, despite a weak lead from Wall Street. Bell Potter senior adviser Stuart Smith said the strong prospects of some more interest rate relief from the central bank prior to Christmas had supported ...

Life-cycle funds boost retirement income: Mercer

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
Adding a whole of life age-based investment default option to superannuation funds would reduce investment risk and help restore confidence in the Australian super system, according to Mercer's David Anderson. The financial services provider used the ...

Regulation compounds hedge fund woes

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
The overwhelming majority of investors believe increased regulation for hedge funds don't protect investor interests and won't prevent the next financial crisis, according to an annual survey by Ernst & Young. The 2012 survey, Finding Common Ground ...

Real estate better than bonds: UBS

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
Investors starved of income should look to core real estate as an alternative to more expensive looking asset classes, according to UBS's Elisabeth Troni. In the face of continued investment uncertainty, the global real estate strategist says that there ...

Beware complex absolute return funds: Lonsec

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
As absolute return funds grow in popularity, investors must be wary of exposing to products they don't fully understand, according to Lonsec. A wealth of new outcome-based equity products has sprung up in recent years, capitalising on the disappointing ...

Give super fund directors more time: Gonski

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
Future Fund chairman David Gonski is diametrically opposed to frequent re-election of superannuation fund directors. Instead he says that board members' tenures should be structured as three terms of three years or two terms of five years. "Annual re-elections ...

AMP to raise $1 billion for 2nd infra debt fund

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
AMP Capital has launched a new infrastructure debt fund to institutional investors following increasing demand from Asia, Europe and North America. The AMP Capital Infrastructure Debt Fund II (IDF) invests in the subordinated debt of infrastructure ...

Ex-Kangaroo and Storm adviser banned for non-compliance

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
... engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct and failed to comply with financial services laws. Walter John (Wally) Fullerton-Smith, of Carrara, Queensland, a former Queensland and Australian rugby league player of the 1980s and 1990s, was a financial ...

Early engagement key to next-gen wealth transfer

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
Philanthropic foundations or trusts offer affluent families an ideal way to engage their children in wealth management and investment from an early age to promote the smooth transfer of wealth between generations, according to Opportunity Australia's ...

Commodities boom over: UBS

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
The super-cycle that drove a huge boom in commodity investment over the last decade is well and truly over, according to UBS's Mark Rider. The Australian head of investment strategy, who has also worked for the Reserve Bank of Australia as head of economic ...