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Basel III to see banks focus on longer-term depositors

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
The requirement to match assets and liabilities under new regulatory proposals will see Australian banks move to a model where customers owning more products, according to ING DIRECT's executive director distribution Lisa Claes. Although the final details ...

HOSTPLUS awards custody tender to Citi, gets MySuper licence

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
HOSTPLUS has appointed Citi its global custodian as part of its transformation to becoming a pooled superannuation trust (PST) according to chief investment officer Sam Sicilia. Sicilia told the Financial Standard that Citi won the tender after an 18-month ...

Don't sell your fixed income investments: JBWere

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
Even though bond yields sit at record low levels, it would be unwise for investors to sell out of their fixed income assets, warned JBWere's Giselle Roux. The chief investment officer and head of investment strategy group at the private wealth specialist ...

Superannuation reforms will affect few: ASFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) said the government reforms on superannuation announced last week will affect few individuals with less than $2 million in super. ASFA said the confusion has arisen due to the fact that many ...

Super funds at a 34-month high

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013
The recovery in super fund returns is continuing with the SelectingSuper Workplace default option index climbing again to a 34-month high of 12.6% by end February 2013. Super fund returns over the past year are now so strong that they are three times ...

Flight to SMSFs reshape super mindset

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
The exodus of individuals away from large superannuation funds and into self-managed super funds (SMSFs) has prompted some soul-searching among the major players. AustralianSuper and Hostplus will soon be launching "direct investment platforms" similar ...

SMSFs on track to reach $500bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
... structural not cycical. "We've seen a number of industry and retail funds begin to offer direct Australian equity and term deposit options in order to counter the trend to SMSFs. And there are more sophisticated offerings on the way. But it is yet too ...

Shortage of reliable Aussie income products

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
... capital preservation attributes but in the current environment, has one of the most volatile income streams. Australian term deposit returns have fallen some 30% in recent years and Birtles says Aussie retirees can ill afford such unpredictability. Equities ...

Dividend stocks ideal for SMSFs

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... inception it has returned 9.4% pa income and 12.2% pa with capital gains included. This compares to the one-year term deposit rate which has fallen from 6% to 4.15% over the same period.

Funds delivering 12.5% for past 12 months

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
Super fund returns continued their recovery during January 2013 as the SelectingSuper Workplace default option index climbed again to now be on a 34-month high of 12.5%. This is a 12 percentage point jump in seven months. As in June last year, returns ...