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Boomers surprisingly open to fair super tax changes

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
... 67 to 70. As negative gearing looks set to become a major election issue, respondents were evenly split 41-41 (with 18% neutral) for and against Labor's plan to change negative gearing laws to apply only to new buildings.

Social media ETF proves possibilities are endless

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2016
... the social media community is saying about the top 100 stocks, establishing whether the 'BUZZ' is positive, negative or neutral overall. The index pinpoints influencers on social media whose tweets and posts are most likely to impact collective opinion. ...

IOOF awards small cap mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2016
... Management, oversaw $1.7 billion at the end of February across a suite of long only, long/short, managed volatility and market neutral strategies. The investment team in Australia tailors the company's systematic investment process to Australian equities. ...

We can do better for women in retirement: Senator

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016
... parts of our taxation and retirement systems. Just because our policies are gender blind, doesn't mean that they're gender neutral," McAllister told the conference. On retirement policy, McAllister repeated the line that twice the amount of superannuation ...

J.P. Morgan fund gets Lonsec nod

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2016
... a cost effective manner. The fund's portfolio manager, Piera Elisa Grassi, commented: "The fund is country and sector neutral but a key point of differentiation is that it targets excess returns by exploiting the fundamental stock-specific ideas of research ...

Rice Warner puts its case for budget changes

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
Industry consultant Rice Warner has called on Treasury to reconsider three superannuation initiatives it put forward for the 2015 federal budget, alongside a raft of other proposed changes in 2016. Rice Warner would still like to see super funds offer ...

Hedge funds up 2.4% in 2015

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2016
... on this data, 65% of funds delivered positive returns in 2015, with the best-performing strategies being equity market neutral/quant, long/short equity and multi-strategy. On average, AIMA's statement continued, hedge funds outperformed equities and ...

20pct tax rebate is budget neutral: FSC

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
Lifting the superannuation guarantee to 12% and pushing a 20% rebate on marginal tax rates for super contributions would have no effect on the federal budget. This is according to the latest modeling from PwC prepared for the Financial Services Council ...

IFM Investors launches new equities team

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
... running three strategies: Australian long-only active equity, Australian long-short equity and Asia long-short market neutral. IFM Investors said these capabilities will complement the firm's existing strategies, including enhanced passive Australian ...

Nikko returns global equities to overweight stance

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
... Management's global investment committee (GIC) has lifted its stance on global equities to moderately overweight from neutral, citing healthy economic growth prospects in the United States. The Tokyo-based company's investment committee maintained an ...