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Dumping dear momos

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... shoots you, I and Irene pinned our hopes to back in 2010 - and have kept on improving, some have even whizzed passed their pre-GFC highs. Last night for instance, we learned that jobless claims in America dropped by a bigger-than-expected 32K to its ...

SEC reopens target date funds disclosure review

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... respondents were unable to clearly state if their target date fund was guaranteed. The research was prompted after the 2008 GFC stock market fall resulted in significant variations among target date funds even among those that had similar target dates ...

Plato partners Milliman to offer retiree income solution

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... income strategy for retirees which will allow them to maintain higher weightings to growth assets whilst managing the risk of a GFC-style shock. Many superannuation funds see "lifecycle" strategies, which progressively de-risk investments as members ...

Prescriptions galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014

Wanted: Money managers that are investors not product makers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... thing for an investment manager to say but this approach has enabled them to add 70% to cumulative returns in the US since the GFC than the market itself. While DSM's approach sounds idealistic, McVey said: "If we get the research and earnings analysis ...

Considerable time to eliminate considerable slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... this measure has steadily come down from the peak 17.1% back in 2010, the current reading remains far above the 8% rate pre-GFC and even higher than the 10.3% top hit after America's recession in 2001. "Stagnant wages" - check. Average weekly earnings ...

QSuper unveils 'industry first' lifecycle product

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... increase in contribution rate from 3% to 9.25% and beyond, and the devastating effect of major market disruptions like the GFC on the retirement savings of hundreds of thousands of Australians. "With around 80% of Australians' super contributions going ...

BRICs without BRI

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
... economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China. They were all the rage back then, back when they were defying the gravity of the GFC and the European sovereign debt crisis and all the other mini crises in-between over the past few years. They were, to ...

Low volatility investing exploits low risk anomaly

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
... anomaly is so strong "that there has never been a 'lost decade' for low volatility portfolios, even during the 'tech wreck' and GFC," he added. Wirds said using low volatility equity strategies has major implications for financial advisers and their ...

PC calls for overhaul of public infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... regulated super funds, similar to the deposit guarantee provided to approved deposit-taking institutions during and post the GFC." While the Productivity Commission acknowledged that "liquidity constraints affecting superannuation funds may warrant consideration ...