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Hedge funds suffer worst year since 2011

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
Last year was a bad one for hedge funds as they suffered their worst returns since 2011. Numbers from industry researcher Eurekahedge showed that its benchmark hedge fund index returned 1.56% in 2015. Though that's the worst absolute return in four ...

HESTA makes first impact investment in affordable housing

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
HESTA has made a $6.7 million investment in Horizon Housing, a community housing provider operating in Queensland focused on increasing the supply of social and affordable housing and helping low income earners achieve home ownership. The super fund ...

China's January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
... Prosperous New Year!" the way financial markets have panned out at the start of 2016. Equity markets around the globe dropped -- big time -- at the start of the first trading week of this year. The S&P 500 index ended 6.0% lower; the Stoxx 600 index ...

Super switches estimated at $35 billion

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2016
A sample from more than 100,000 Australians with superannuation shows about one-third were prepared to change their super fund without financial advice during the past three years. From the selection of 2002 respondents interviewed as part of the Roy ...

Lesson in expectations management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... lift higher in coming months." The simple answer is that the ECB disastrously disappointed market expectations. it promised big and delivered little as against the Fed which delivered exactly what the market wanted. The contrasting market reactions to ...

Mine Wealth + Wellbeing partners admin newcomer

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
... ourselves on offering innovative solutions, from the flexibility to offer maximum choice for SMSFs to the sophistication for a big fund like 'Mine' to have greater efficiencies and further reduce operating expenses," Crooks said. Most big super funds ...

Omniwealth names new COO

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2015
... company's managing director, Matt Kidd said. "Omniwealth finds that many of our small business clients want the skills of a big firm with key services available in one place at one time so that they can access the collective IP that all of our advisers ...

Paying women more super not the answer

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2015
... around older women who, by statistics, live older than men." "[Older women] Who are still living in family homes that are too big for them, that are too costly for them, and to downsize they're putting untaxed money in to a taxed environment," Dartnall ...

Aussies don't want gift of super this Christmas

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2015
Over the Christmas break about 30% of Australians would rather pay off debt than top up their superannuation balances according to the latest MLC Wealth Sentiment Survey. Interviewing more than 2000 people in its quarterly survey, MLC found investor's ...

Belabouring the labour market stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015
... upon headlines of woeful below trend growth in the Australian economy, the slowness of the non-mining sector to fill up the big hole left by mining and job cut announcements... here, there and everywhere, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported ...