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Pengana delivers AEq returns out of the market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
It is unorthodox for an equity fund to not be fully deployed into the asset class it is benchmarked against, but the Pengana Australian equity fund has used this approach to significantly out-perform. "If we cannot find such opportunities, then the ...

AUI stays with OneVue unit registry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has renewed its contract to use OneVue's unit registry system for the next five years. OneVue is an independently owned operator of unified managed accounts. It has been operating its unit registry business since 2001. ...

Stammer joins Centric Wealth investment committee

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
High end wealth advice group Centric Wealth has appointed Dr Don Stammer to its portfolio construction committee. Dr Stammer's involvement with Centric Wealth will include working with the principals of Philo Capital Advisers, where he works as a non-executive ...

Alternatives beyond reach for in-house

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2012
... global average of 22%. "It will be very difficult for all but the largest funds to undertake that work by themselves," said Alex Austin, chief executive officer of Access Capital Advisers - which specialises in infrastructure investments. Austin said ...

Too many managers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2012
Australia has an oversupply of fund managers and the fight to survive will cause many to review their pricing and business models. Brett Himbury, chief executive of IFM, said the funds industry is about to go through a correction as firms confront how ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
SYDNEY, July 19 AAP - The Australian sharemarket has opened more than 1% higher following positive leads from overseas and a rebound in the local resources sector. At 1012 AEST on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 49 points, or 1.19 per ...

Buy-right and equity managers will deliver income

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
A growing proportion of superannuation assets being owned by retirees is re-orienting investment product design towards producing income, but delivering this in a sideways yet volatile capital market requires investment managers to change their approach. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
SYDNEY - The Australian stock market looks set to open higher following strong gains on Wall Street and European bourses overnight amid upbeat US earnings reports and after a Federal Reserve report said the world's largest economy continued to grow ...

REST Industry Super delivers 0.85%

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
REST Industry Super has delivered a positive 2011-12 return of 0.85% for its default Core option and 1.18% for same option in the pension division. The result having a 'plus' in front of it, stands in sharp contrast to the -7% delivered by the Australian ...

KiwiSaver 5 years going strong

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
KiwiSaver, New Zealand's opt-out default workplace superannuation scheme, has just had its fifth birthday and despite its early critics now has almost 2 million members and $A8.8bn in assets. KiwiSaver membership is equivalent to about two-thirds of ...