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Blue Sky flushes dunnies

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... Hire, and Phone a Throne (Perth). In 2009, it diversified into the event space, a move that helped it grow despite the post-GFC construction downturn. Today, it is present in every mainland state in Australia, has several thousand toilets on hire and ...

Long term super fund returns approach record levels

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... returns for the 3 years ending June 2015 while the 2014-15 financial year is the sixth consecutive positive return since the GFC. The fall in equity markets, however, favoured not-for-profit (NFP) funds due to their higher weighting in alternative assets ...

FEATURE: Custody under review

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... later. Azer believes super funds and asset managers were faced with regulatory challenges post the global financial crisis (GFC) and many stalled their custody reviews. Now custody has almost come full circle with a raft of recent mandates and some major ...

Make it December (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... was around 5.2% in the early 1990s; 2.8% in the mid-90s; 4.1% in early 2000; 3.2% in the mid noughties; and 3.3% before the GFC before the jobless rate started to shoot up. Perhaps the June quarter ECI reading is just a fluke that would correct itself ...

Investors to get less in coming years

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... of earnings growth," he said. "We still have the hangover from the commodity boom. Fiscal 2016 is likely to be another post-GFC year." While both fund managers said investors should expect lower returns in the years ahead, they saw no reason to run for ...

FEATURE: Alternatives - Taking the plunge

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... dedicated to explaining management fees to members. "It's definitely an educational piece," she says. "Particularly after the GFC, there was a lot of commentary about fees and how managers were gouging fees, but really, for an end-member, and actually ...

Independent dealers in M&A mode

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... biggest drivers for planners looking to exit the institutional space. "Dealer groups flocked to the aligned structure after the GFC, because institutions were offering volume bonuses or guaranteeing to buy up their business if they stayed on for five ...

GFC recovery only tentative

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... be asking themselves whether they should have done better in recovery almost eight years after the global financial crisis (GFC), according to Aberdeen Asset Management head of fixed income Nick Bishop. Speaking at a recent Australian Institute of Superannuation ...

Retiring 'comfortably may require 3 income building blocks: Legg Mason

PROMOTED BY LEGG MASON  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... RBA. To put this into context, this income loss dwarfs the biggest ever fall in the Australian sharemarket - 54% during the GFC - and this ignores the fast recovery of shares and a franking boost. Furthermore, if you strip away share price volatility ...

Higher US rates will test investors' nerves: QIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... believe offer return opportunities for investors that look beyond the present and signal a welcome step-change in the post-GFC era. "The return of the term premium represents a significant step up from the current broadly zero figure. For best results ...