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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 ...

Investor 'fear factor' lowest in 40 months

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
Australian investors are less scared then they have been in more than three years, and stock market return expectations are at a 20 month high. Research group Investment Trends today released the findings of its January 2013 Investor Intentions Index ...

Banks raise $15bn in wholesale markets

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
Based on strong underlying appetite for Australian bank paper and improved wholesale funding costs - significantly below the rates they're willing to pay for term deposits - total funds raised by major Australian banks in the wholesale markets just ...

LUCRF's new growth option targets lower volatility

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
LUCRF Super has launched a new member investment choice designed to offer growth with lower risk profile than the typical 'Balanced' option. The 'Targeted Return' option aims to return CPI plus 4% after fees and taxes with lower volatility than a typical ...

Super funds post stellar returns - AREITs on top

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
Super fund returns continued their astounding recovery during December as the SelectingSuper Workplace default option index climbed to a 32-month high of 12.1%, the latest Rainmaker analysis shows. The positive result has been driven by the recent strong ...