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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 ...

Game changer in six months: AMP SMSFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
AMP Group's self-managed super fund business is now managing more than 9,100 SMSF accounts, more than treble the number it managed in the first half of last year. AMP has been able to position its business in the SMSF market and has become one of the ...

Retail investors need new defensive investments

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
Australian retail investors should consider managed credit funds, as term deposit rates are set to drop, said head of credit markets at AMP Capital Jeff Brunton. A global low interest rate environment will eventually force Australian banks to pay out ...

UBS and ME Bank launch high interest cash account

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
UBS and ME Bank have launched a high interest cash account service for superannuation fund members based on UBS's direct investment platform for superannuation funds. AustralianSuper is the first superannuation fund to offer the cash account as part ...

SMSF trustees confident backing their limited advice

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
New research reveals enormous opportunities for Australia's financial advisers to help their clients, with self managed super funds, diversify their portfolios better. Launched on the eve of the 2013 SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) ...

Interest rate cuts drive SMSFs to FI, property

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
Interest rate cuts in December 2012 drove Self Managed Super Funds (SMSF) trustees from cash holdings to fixed interest and direct property investments, Multiport SMSF Investment Patterns Survey found. Cash holdings fell 1.9% to 24.5% in the December ...

$1tr flows into US bond funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
... underperforming the Australian equity market by a factor of three to one. According to the Reserve Bank, the average one year term deposit is paying a yield of 4.2% pre tax, compared to the SelectingSuper default investment option index that returned ...