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New business targets investors' bad habits

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... be in their best interest, such as a pronounced preference for domestic over global equities, a strong attachment to property and a very high allocation to cash. In its attempt to address this knowledge deficit, BFA is currently targeting financial advisers ...

AMP gives SMSFs access to property and corporate bonds

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... investors who want to access asset classes that require a large capital outlay. The AMP Capital Wholesale Australian Property Fund and the AMP Capital Corporate Bond Fund are aimed at SMSF investors who want to diversify their portfolios without investing ...

Super on track for double-digit year

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... shares. In contrast, domestic and international bonds returned 3.3% and 3.9% respectively and cash returned 2.8%. Direct property and A-REITs have maintained their respective 9% and 4% results. The top five Workplace super funds (by default options) ...

Age Pension to rise to 70 by 2035

MARK SMITH, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... covering only males is an anachronism in the context of contemporary Australia." The commission also recommended that property be included in the means test: "The commission considers that a proportion of the value of the principal residence should be ...

CFS launches range of SMAs

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... and 1% to cash. The most conservative, meanwhile, has 11% in Australian equities, 9% in international equities, 5% in property securities, 28% in Australian fixed interest, and 15% in international fixed interest.

Australian investors 'conservative and pessimistic': Legg Mason

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... Australians are about their investment portfolio." The report also found that Australia's "love affair" with investment property is very pronounced by global standards.

Qantas Super appoints new investment adviser

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... been appointed for an initial five-year term with Arcadia Managed Investments continuing to provide specialist unlisted property advice. Qantas Super chief investment officer Andrew Spence said that Mercer was a "best fit" principal investment adviser ...

The music's still playing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014
... year ago. Goldilocks is back. The US economy is not too hot, not too cold. The S&P/Case-Shiller 20 US cities index of property values increased by 12.9% in the year to February - more than market expectations but is the smallest annual rate of increase ...

Future Fund and super returns on par

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... 12 months while private equity and infrastructure exposure increased from 13% to 16%. Exposure to Australian equities, property securities, fixed and cash in contrast all fell as did exposure to absolute return funds that reduced from 13% to 11%.

Channel Capital acquires QIC small cap business

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... continues to provide infrastructure services to Solaris. The new business already boasts an agriculture offering, a global property fund (RRE Global Property Securities) and a global equities fund, and now the QIC team will provide a new Australian small ...