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Govt could handcuff SMSFs

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013
... from 18% a decade ago. The report said the step could be mitigated by successful efforts to woo SMSF members back to the safety of the professional advice and wealth management market. "Products like AMP's SuperIQ go some way towards addressing their ...

EBX launches online tool to purchase endowment bonds

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... retire, so you know that whatever happens in the next years, you are not going to be exposed to it because you have your safety net in the form of regular cash flows," Duchesne said. "Endowment bonds can easily be a portion of the retirement portfolio ...

Treasuries - safe but not so rewarding

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
... been the case? Nevertheless, this latest bout of financial market volatility has brought not a few investors back into the safety of US Treasuries. The yield on benchmark 10-year US Treasuries dipped below 2.0% on the Cyprus conundrum after gradually ...

Bond investors beware interest rate risk

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
... historically low yield environment compressing spreads on many credit instruments to record lows. "Ultra low yields mean safety cushions - to what extent a bond's income offsets a price fall due to a rise in yield -- have turned into beds of nails," ...

AvSuper appoints Perpetual for a $75m equities mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... administer the superannuation benefits of employees and former employees of Airservices Australia and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA). The AvSuper equities mandate is now part of Perpetual's Concentrated Equity strategy. The portfolio had ...

Retirement costs on the rise again

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... cent), which fell mainly as a result of a greater proportion of consumers exceeding the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme safety net compared to the September quarter 2012. ASFA said that over the long term, the underlying trend has been for significant ...

There's no bubble in bond markets: Tyndall AM

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... money into the bond market is not being fuelled by greed, as is the case in a classic bubble scenario, but by flight-to-safety," he said. "In addition, foreign investment is playing a huge role in the price of Australian bonds." Before the GFC, approximately ...

Qsuper to champion tailored options

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... overly interested in short-term returns, and instead were focused on how much money they would need in retirement, and what "safety net" of funds they could hope to rely on, Holzberger said. "We think it is [the tailored option] a very intelligent way ...

Advisers leaving out ESG

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... impact can help identify emerging growth trends such as water scarcity and security, and focus on occupational health and safety." Dalton Nicol Reid's Australian Equities high conviction portfolio has returned 12.1% a year over the 10 years to October ...

Retirees must invest in equities: State Street

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2012
... yielding equity strategy over the last 10 years would have been substantially better off than those who had retreated to the safety of term-deposits, despite dramatic falls in the equity market as a result of the financial crisis. According to SSgA ...