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Global property securities growth to continue

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
Most investment managers predict the global property securities sector will continue delivering strong returns throughout 2015, according to the Lonsec 2014/15 Global Property Securities Sector Review. The Lonsec research, which examined 23 global property ...

Active managed fund returns worsen against indices

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
The average active fund's performance versus index strategies has worsened compared to the previous six months, according to the S&P Dow Jones Indices Versus Active Funds (SPIVA) Scorecard. The report, issued semi-annually, tracks the performance of ...

Invesco launches multi-asset targeted return fund

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
Invesco has launched its multi-asset Global Targeted Returns Strategy to the local market. The Fund, which opened on 27 February, targets a gross return of 5% over the Bloomberg AusBond Bank Bill Index (cash +5%) over a rolling, three-year period. Crucially ...

Vantage launches SMSF-ready private equity fund

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... between $50 million and $500 million at initial investment. The new fund offers a tax efficient structure and is targeting returns of 20% per annum across a six to eight year investment time frame. Investors will receive regular distributions as the ...

Funds wrestling with liquidity problem

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... investment officers deploy that vast pile of cash in a market which has less and less capacity to offer anywhere near their returns targets. The $109 billion Future Fund's mandate is to return CPI +4.5%, but with interest rates at record lows and 10-year ...

Super breaks $2trn on way to $9trn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... may seem they could turn out to be conservative subject of course to assumptions and expectations regarding investment returns, contributions flows and the rate at which benefit payments transition from lump sums to income streams - meaning more capital ...

Don't take our franking credits: Taxpayers Australia

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
Removing dividend imputation will lower returns and favour wealthy overseas investors over local retirees who rely on dividend income and the reduced tax from franking credits, according to Taxpayers Australia. TAL head of superannuation and Taxpayers ...

Principal fund upgraded by Lonsec

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... which plays an integral part in framing the research and decision-making of this fund," he said. "In an environment of low returns, the fund provides local investors with access to global equity securities from both developed and emerging markets while ...

Competition for annuities likely to remain low

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... Inquiry (FSI) recommendations, "the banks currently have capital constraints and have recently experienced losses and low returns in their life insurance businesses." For this reason, they are likely to prefer "allocating capital to high ROE mortgages ...

ESG becoming essential to insto alternative investment

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... considering) ESG criteria went beyond ethical concerns: 90% of participants felt ESG criteria had a positive or neutral effect on returns, while over half (57%) believed it directly increased risk-adjusted returns. "It is encouraging to see investors ...