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Aussie investors list operational alpha among top priorities

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
... partnership with Bloomberg AIM and other products as an example. He said now that global investors have lived through a post-GFC period of new regulations, pressures and requirements of transparency for their stakeholders, underlying all of this is a ...

So what if Australia loses its 'AAA'?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016
... deficit to narrow materially and to be in a balanced position by the early 2020s." Got that! The now good - it was bad back pre-GFC when it gave AAA-ratings to bonds backed by sub-prime mortgages - and "credible" credit ratings agency has given Australia ...

Super funds on track to post positive return this year

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016
... year compares less favourably to more recent annual returns, albeit positive. The 10-year average return, which includes the GFC, is forecast to be just over 5% and 6.9% over 20 years. End of financial year return figures are important to superannuation ...

PROFILE: Industry Super Australia chief economist Stephen Anthony

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016
... says. He says the OECD recently confirmed capital expenditure is well and truly below the levels that many would expect post-GFC, and especially among the current monetary policy settings. This has driven up the prices of assets like equities and bonds ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016
... total credit growth remains decent - up 6.7% in the year to May after growth of 6.9% in April - the fastest annual rate post-GFC. Total credit slowed the most back in November 2009, recording an annual growth rate of 0.7%, and expanded the most (17.3%) ...

Objectives-based investing under the spotlight

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2016
... total returns. Morningstar Australasia director of manager research, Tim Murphy, told a briefing in Sydney yesterday that post-GFC there has been an increasing focus on end-client outcomes rather than relative returns and it prompted the emergence of ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2016
... -3.4 in the previous month, confirming the weak payrolls report. This is the lowest reading since May 2009 (that's right, GFC days) and the fifth straight month of negative readings. As a matter of interest, the LMCI printed at 5.4 in November 2013 and ...

Super funds reverse poor start to 2016

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2016
... are 7.5% pa. The longer term 10-year return is a more modest 5% pa. although this period incorporates the full effect of the GFC and is overlaid by a lower inflation environment. On an annual basis Australian equities, often the largest asset class in ...

Australia on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2016
... just exports? Recall the phrase, "exporting its way out of recession". The intermittent currency wars (not only after the GFC) were intended to do just that. This is because the benefits from trade will ultimately flow through to the entire economy. ...

US Senate votes down adviser fiduciary rule

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2016
... clients' best interests and limit conflicted remuneration payments has been championed by the Obama White House since the GFC but has proved controversial stirring up heated resistance from a chorus of industry bodies who stood to lose revenue. These ...