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PROFILE: PM Capital CIO Paul Moore

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... Australia leaflet at a university careers event. It explained how the company invested superannuation money in overseas shares. "It was at that point, that I knew what I wanted to do for a living," Moore remembers. From there it was only a matter of ...

SMSFs up weighting to international shares

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... increase of 1.9% in the last quarter alone," La Greca added. There are still some barriers to direct investment in overseas shares. As a result, allocation to managed funds has increased to 17.4%. The survey also revealed that during the last quarter ...

SMSFs still under-invested in global shares

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... Self-managed super fund (SMSF) investors continue to overlook the diversification and growth benefits of investing in overseas shares, according to Insync head of research Marcus Tuck. While allocations have increased slightly, the latest figures for ...

SMSFs show appetite for direct overseas shares

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2013
SMSFs investors are three times more likely to research overseas stocks than non-SMSF investors, according to research conducted by investment research platform Skaffold into its member base. Skaffold, which was set up by well-known professional stock-pickers ...

SMSFs urged to consider transparent alternatives to managed funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013
... equities' basket every day in an MDA," he said He said MDAs offer a less costly and cumbersome way of investing in overseas shares, with the account holder delegating these processes to the provider, while keeping beneficial ownership of the underlying ...

REST thanks overseas equities for high returns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... most popular option. The REST Pension Core Strategy also saw significant returns of 20.76%. Of all the options, Overseas Shares saw the highest returns, with a whopping 32.95%. The combined overseas and domestic option returned just shy of 30%. "A strong ...

Aussie equity investors urged to buy overseas

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013
... Nick Irish has urged Australian investors to look beyond their home bias and diversify their equity exposure with overseas shares. According to data from Rainmaker Information, average asset allocations for both not-for-profit (NFP) and retail superannuation ...

Investors looking backwards: Mercer

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
... that investors may be focusing on the rear-view mirror when they should be forward-looking," said White. In the overseas shares market, equities were down 5.3% both in Australian dollar terms and in local currency. The poor results were attributed to ...

Asia Pacific $23.5bn local investment

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
... invested globally by 14 managers, which went to Asia Pacific investments. "The most popular investment type was overseas shares (26.5%) - in other words, after flowing into Australia there is a counter-flow which takes monies back overseas. Similarly ...

Cash sector surges beyond super

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
... super funds moving away from their high equity focus. While a decade ago they had 58% invested into both local and overseas shares, by June this year that weighting had dropped to 51%. The beneficiary from the negative superannuation investment sentiment ...