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Australian shares up on first day of fin year

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
The Australian share market has begun trading in the new financial year with gains with investors appearing happy to take a break from the recent sell-offs. The Greek debt crisis is not yet resolved but hope remains of a resolution with talks with Eurozone ...

Australian shares lower at midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
Australian shares opened slightly lower but moved higher in choppy trade following Monday's carnage when $40 billion was wiped off the share market. There were heavy falls in US and European markets overnight, particularly the latter, due to the economic ...

Redpoint awarded MLC equities mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... emerging markets," Mahalingam said. In May last year MLC also awarded Redpoint a $1 billion mandate A for an Australian shares index strategy. Redpoint is an employee-owned company with NAB Asset Management, a strategic business partner, holding a minority ...

AvSuper adds new investment option

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... savings, while continuing to obtain some exposure to growth assets. Initially the fund will allocate roughly 28% to Australian shares and 17% to international shares. There's a 19% allocation to defensive alternatives and 11% in cash. The remaining 25% ...

Retirement incomes lead FUM growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
... total FUM continued to be held in default options. Other default investment options including multi-sector, Australian shares and overseas investments accounted for 61% of total FUMA, a small decrease from 62% as at December 2014. Of the top five employer ...

Super delivers 12.2% for year end April

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... are likely to account for half the returns on international assets. Direct property meanwhile delivered 11%, Australian shares 10%, Australian and international bonds 9% each. But highlighting concerns over proposed changes to government policy on pension ...

SMSFs need more investment diversity: FinaMetrica

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
Risk profiler FinaMetrica believes continued investment in Australian shares and cash could spell disaster for self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) when the local market corrects. The call came on top of managed funds data recently released by ...

Low-cost super awash with inflows

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... senior investment analyst, Peter Green, said given the average SMSF has almost a third of its assets invested in Australian shares, it's logical there should be a strong increase in the type of products aimed at these investors. "This surge of interest ...

AMP chief economist says housing future messy

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... is around 2.9% (after costs this is around 1%), compared to yields of 6% on commercial property and 5.7% for Australian shares (with franking credits)," Oliver said. "This means that the income flow an investment in housing generates is very low compared ...

Don't take our franking credits: Taxpayers Australia

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
... positives. "In an environment of low interest rates, investors - particularly self-funded retirees - have turned to Australian shares that offer good income from dividends and franking credits that may be refunded in a SMSF. Remove dividend imputations ...