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Cash top of mind for investors

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2016
Cash has overtaken real estate and domestic equities as the dominant asset class as Australians become increasingly more conservative in their investment choices, according to the Legg Mason 2016 Global Investment Survey. The survey revealed there was ...

ETF Securities closes 10 ETFs

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2016
... $50,000. According to Kris Walesby, head of ANZ ETFS (which offers funds in partnership with ETF Securities), the decision to close the funds was "a commercial one based on the lack of interest from Australian investors." Speaking to Financial Standard ...

State Street expands in Melbourne

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2016
Global firm State Street Corporation is expanding its Melbourne office to underpin its commitment to servicing superannuation funds and asset managers in Victoria. Commenting on the expansion State Street chairman and chief executive Joseph L. Hooley ...

Look up in the sky, it's the yen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2016
Safe haven purchases, speculative positioning ahead of the fiscal year-end, repatriation, reduced interest rate yield differential, policy impotence... take your pick. The fact remains that the Japanese yen has appreciated - big time - vis-A -vis the ...

Super funds promote affordable housing ideas

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016
... scale institutional investment to affordable housing, particularly from Australia's $2tn superannuation sector, will require close collaboration between investors, housing providers and state and Commonwealth governments," Porter said. HESTA recently ...

Azimut buys Australian equities manager

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016
... Australian institutional market," Macoun said. Sigma's executives will retain a 49% stake and the transaction is expected close this month. Sigma was established in August 2009, by an ex-Credit Suisse team of six founding partners.

Super fund outflow ratios cause for concern

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2016
Superannuation funds have been warned about net cash outflow ratios trending upwards as an issue that may impact their future viability. Speaking at the Banking and Wealth Summit in Sydney yesterday, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) ...

Telstra Super appoints CIO from Willis Towers Watson

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2016
Telstra Super has appointed a new chief investment officer following a four-month executive search. Graeme Miller joins Telstra Super from Willis Towers Watson, where he was director of investment services since 2007. In that role he led the Australian ...

Indigenous workers retire with 27pct less: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
... need to address indigenous disadvantage in terms of education, employment and life expectancy as highlighted in the recent Close the Gap Prime Minister's Report 2016," Ralston said. The study was prompted by discussions with members of the Aboriginal ...

Janet's words stronger than BOJ and ECB bazookas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
Quantitative easing. Negative interest rates. Quantitative and Qualitative easing with a negative interest rate. All of the above plus promises of more. The European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) big bazookas proved no match for US ...