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Rare coins and banknotes fund to raise $25m

... and investors an unusual opportunity to own a piece of Australian history while saving up for their retirement. A 1921 square penny for example can fetch $60,000 in today's money, equivalent to a five-year compound return of over 35 per cent. The fund ...

Time to talk about asset classes: MTAA Super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
... more progressive super funds when doing research for financial planners. "We see ourselves as round pegs being bashed into square holes," he said. Watson said the crux of the issue is, "Do you invest in assets or do you invest in classes with characteristics? ...

Plum treads its own path past $8b

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2006
... life in 1998 the business has built its success through a focus on delivering member solutions which think outside the square. "Plum's rapid growth since launching some eight years ago is largely attributable to its ongoing development of innovative ...

Super fund ARIA buys Chifley Square

... employees, showed it is serious about direct property after shelling out $84.5 million for a 92 per cent stake in 1 Chifley Square, an iconic building at the heart of the Sydney CBD. One of ARIA's real estate investment managers, Arcadia Funds Management ...

Forget industry funds, focus on advice: AFA

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2006
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has implored the advice community to forget any factional fighting with industry funds and put the value of advice squarely back into the spotlight. AFA chief executive officer, Richard Kilipin, said the financial ...

DeAM chases alpha in fixed income

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2006
The alpha trend has stepped neatly over to the fixed income space, with Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) being the latest fund manager to announce the roll-out of a new high yield fixed income fund. The announcement comes only a week after global fund ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2006
... the government's desire to tackle the energy crisis have emerged with the commitment to explore in excess of two million square kilometres of Australia's territorial waters for oil and gas over the next five years. Satellite remote sensing and geophysical ...

Demand absorbs 9 per cent increase in office supply: PCA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2006
... property to fuel capital growth and income stream requirements, has seen the total stock surveyed break the 20 million square metre mark for the first time.

Vanguard says volatility points to indexing

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2006
If you are looking for your cash plus returns back in a year's time, then roll the dice but Vanguard doesn't want to know about it. If you are serious about a genuine long-term horizon, though, then indexing is a better than average bet. According to ...

Cutting super benefit taxes affordable: IAA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2006
Despite complaints from some industry experts that the Budget tax reforms were unaffordable, the Institute of Actuaries of Australia (IAA) has released research arguing the proposals will have only a minimal impact on government revenues. "The apparent ...