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Can cheap, high quality stocks can still be found?

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013
... investment process centres on finding high-quality business, which have not been bid up by the market in the race for income producing, defensive assets. "The likes of the utilities, tobacco and telco companies have performed strongly since the onset ...

Yield obsession just a short-term fad

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2013
... expert believes that high-yield stocks have been unjustifiably driven up by the market's insatiable appetite for income producing assets. "As with any short-term investment theme or fad there are various factors driving investment behavior. Some are ...

A-REITS rewarded for cleaning up act

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... outperforming both global REITs and wider Australian share portfolios. Lonsec attributed the rise to strong demand for yield producing assets and a favourable earnings outlook, helped by the improved health in A-REIT finances. "The global quest for yield ...

Generation Y busts SMSF age myth

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... inquisitive and open-minded nature of the ones that are interested in this are making more inquiries, and that conversation is producing more information." Slattery said that less jargon and more genuine education is needed to encourage more young people ...

Dismiss fixed income at your peril

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... Investors, particularly those in or approaching retirement, should be wary of ignoring fixed income and other income producing assets in the 'great rotation' out of cash and into equities, according to Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) executive ...

CBA grows advice research team with new hire

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
... management of the licensee approved product lists, the creation and management of portfolio construction solutions and producing research related communications and presentations. Prior to joining CBA, Aggarwal has held paraplanner roles, most recently ...

Lonsec and Milliman partner for post-retirement research

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2013
... the initiative, de Pourbaix said Lonsec and Milliman would focus on building model portfolios for retirees, as well as producing though-leadership pieces that tackle the post-retirement issue. Lonsec hopes it can build on its established relationships ...

AFA moves into broadcast to promote advice vision

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
... receiving financial advice. The AFA chief executive Brad Fox told Financial Standard that the organisation is working on producing a program to tell "real stories about real advice that entertain and educate at the same time." Fox said that the project ...

BT Financial boosts Westpac result

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
... of 2012 and 2cps on the second half. "Momentum continued to build over the period, with all our Australian businesses producing double-digit cash earnings growth compared to the same period last year," Westpac Group chief executive Gail Kelly said. She ...

Zenith rates US-based fund as 'highly recommended'

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2013
... on a recovery in U.S. markets but captures the margin generated by a reworking of the asset into a stabilised income producing property. In March 2012, Zenith issued a rating on the Main Fund for institutional investors.