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MoneySmart fin lit schools kits now even more hi-tech

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
ASIC will release later this month the next round of digital classroom activities guides and resources designed to help primary school teachers promote financial literacy. The resources are part of the ASIC MoneySmart initiative and revolve around the ...

ASX volatility index moves to live pricing

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... volatility information and importantly, enables ASX to create derivative products for hedging and trading the volatility asset class. Popularly referred to as 'the fear index', the new real-time S&P/ASX 200 VIX will replace the current end-of-day VIX ...

Maple-Brown Abbott moves into global listed infra

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... infrastructure. "We believe if low volatility and inflation protection are important investment objectives of investors in the asset class, then we must ensure these characteristics are clearly identified as part of the investment process," he said. ...

Industrial property funds draw SMSFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
... liquidity, they are looking for low risk funds and, from a tax perspective, taxes on properties are lower compared to other class assets," Stacker told Financial Standard. Charter Hall has been able to see this trend through a Direct Industrial Fund ...

Van Eyk warns against New Year financial predictions

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
... how to use predictions properly. Ramsay asked analysts not to overemphasise the link between investment themes and asset class returns as big and tangible market themes not necessarily translate into market performance. The researcher also said that ...

Hastings appoints executive director for North America

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
... it presents in the infrastructure sector." Commenting on her new role, Mavroyannis said that "infrastructure as an asset class offers tremendous opportunities, and Hastings has a proven ability to recognise and extract value from these opportunities ...

Asset diversification gathers momentum

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
Institutional investors continue to diversify their investment portfolios into alternative assets, increasingly via direct funds rather than funds of funds, according to global data from Towers Watson. The data shows that in 2012 its clients - which ...

Pepper acquires Spanish loan business Celeris

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
... significant milestone in Pepper's European expansion strategy and in achieving our ambition of establishing Pepper as a best-in-class pan-European loan servicing and real estate manager." The transaction was supported by Goldman Sachs International as ...

SMSF trustees confident backing their limited advice

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
... International equities returned 19.1% in 2012, but SMSF trustees on average only allocated 6% of their portfolios to the asset class. And despite defending portfolios well during downturns, cash investments returned only 4% in 2012. Cash investments ...

Global listed property outperforms global equities by 8.6%

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
Due to investor appetite for yield and safe-haven sectors, global listed property had significantly outperformed most major asset classes during 2012, a research paper reveals today. While fund performance has been impressive in an absolute sense, the ...