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Absolute returns no longer the domain of instos

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... recognise the value of investing in assets that are less correlated, can provide protection on the downside and deliver stable returns across all market cycles." Henderson's Absolute Return Australian Equity Fund, recently added to the Macquarie Wrap ...

WAM finds returns in growth companies

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... market. "It demonstrates the strength of our investment process, which has provided shareholders with sound risk-adjusted returns since inception in 1999. The investment performance of 21.6% was achieved while holding an average cash weighting of 35%," ...

Bond investors must relax benchmark constraints

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... a few reasons for this - firstly, the Australian bond market offers a positive yield. Secondly, clients want positive returns and so a positive benchmark is the logical performance measure. Finally, thanks to unprecedented central bank actions, there ...

Australasia sees continued Canadian investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... returned 1% and chief executive Andre Bourbonnais said the manager suffered from public equity markets posting negative returns and its private equity portfolio underperforming. However, "most of our private market asset classes, and more particularly ...

Hedge funds battle identity crisis

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... attempting to adapt to pressure on fees from investors and to rising business costs, while maintaining non-correlated returns in a difficult economic climate. "It is of particular concern that many managers state they have met their performance objectives ...

Focus on older men will kill financial planning

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
... well, especially to young people. We have to make clear financial planning is about more than portfolios and investment returns. It's about managing debt, reaching life goals and dealing with hurdles as they come up." An important part of doing that ...

Super gets reality check on engagement

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
... interviews and workshops include consumer trust in the system, fund consolidation, erosion of balances and investment returns on the approach to retirement. "It became really clear there were some basic misunderstandings about what super even is, who ...

New $70bn MLC fund gives retail access to unlisted

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
The scale advantages of the $70 billion merged MLC Super Fund will deliver better returns to members through access to the unlisted space, according to NAB Wealth executive general manager Paul Carter. Speaking on a panel on superannuation fund scale ...

Trust ahead of returns for member retention

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
Members who have changed jobs since joining Equip have for the first time ranked trust ahead of investment returns as the reason for sticking with the fund. In Equip's 2016 member survey conducted by CoreData, just over a third of these 730 members ...

Equip CIO departs following restructure

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016
... the fund was strongly committed to evolving a liability-driven approach to investments believing that it will enhance returns to members over the long term and help defined benefit employers manage their investment risk, particularly in schemes with ...