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Legg Mason $100m mandates add to IOOF value approach

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
IOOF's decision to award Legg Mason $100 million across two mandates was based on a desire to differentiate its offering from other manager and supplement existing out-of-favour value strategies, said IOOF chief investment officer Steve Merlicek. IOOF ...

Careful of the recession you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
More often than not, it's good to know that one is in good company. I bet not a few of you gentle readers believed more the "Fed would unwind soon" headlines than this column's musing that, "that time is not yet". Yeah, the equity markets' performance ...

Super industry urged to increase transparency: ASFA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
Pauline Vamos, chief executive of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), has urged the superannuation industry to think about its position as a "compulsory business", and how this may affect client perception. Speaking at the Financial ...

Super needs to forget about politics

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
Superannuation has to move away from the daily political noise and adopt a long term approach, AustralianSuper CEO Ian Silk said yesterday at the AIST's Conference of Major Super Funds in Brisbane. "Superannuation tax concessions are costing over $30 ...

Annuities boost Challenger growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
... 58,000 people moving into Aged Care in 2011 alone this represents a large, fast-growing and under-served market," he said. "Ours is a unique product available over all major platforms in the industry that has no competitors." On the second half of 2012 ...

Smart beta ETF take-up to double in 2013

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... products can have quite different characteristics. "The key is to look under the hood and see how the indices are built. Ours has an income bias but with a 20% cap on any industrial sector," he said. "Others, without that cap can have as much as 60% ...

Hunter Hall repositions fund

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
Hunter Hall has said that changes made to its Australian Value Trust fund, which posted the second lowest result in a recent survey, will mean that it is judged more accurately. It was reported yesterday that the Hunter Hall Value Trust fund finished ...

Something's gotta give

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
... plunging into another recession. One way or another one or both parties have to give in. That or it's the economy - theirs and ours - that'll give.

Double-digit Asian equity returns in 2013: BlackRock

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
... relief of avoiding a hard-landing will be very beneficial to Asian cyclicals. Healthcare has long been a favourite sector of ours from a valuation perspective while non-bank financials will benefit from economic reforms." He added: "Areas where we see ...

Urbanisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2012
They can put any spin on it they want but you know, and I know, and even your uncle's dog knows that 'twas just another ordinary day on equity markets overnight. Wall Street and Europe closed higher 'supposedly' because the Israelis and the Palestinians ...