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Tassie RBF awards GAM $100m mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... while giving downside protection against a major market correction and/or rising interest rates. "With their long-term performance track record, focus on risk control and experience in the absolute return space, this bond fund enhances the risk/return ...

Graccident averted (yet again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... yields dropped (except for Ireland which added a basis point to 1.66%). Never mind game theory and what have yous, the performance of the financial markets alone, especially that in the Eurozone, over the past few weeks provides both parties at the opposite ...

Infrastructure returns beat equities, bonds

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... Index is one of MSCI's newer indices, having been established in 2009. According to the MSCI's analysis of the index's performance, it expects investment in the asset class to grow considerably over time. "The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates ...

FEATURE: The infrastructure love story

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... countries. Some of the poorest scores were for the quality of Australia's roads and ports. The World Bank's Logistics Performance Index 2014 ranked Australia's trade and transport infrastructure 16th in the world. The Australian Infrastructure Audit ...

Nominations open for AFA Adviser of the Year Award

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... Award last month, AFA chief executive Brad Fox said the awards celebrate the success of exceptional advisers whose performance has been highly rated by their clients. "At a time when the reputation of financial advisers in the community is being challenged ...

Investors pretending there's value in the market

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... that is not a valuation argument." "Investors have a clear choice here: either focus on managing short-term relative performance, because the main risk is missing out on a final rally, or focus on how to maximise absolute total returns on a three- to ...

La Trobe pooled mortgage fund rated by Zenith

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... "Recommended" rating by Zenith Investment Partners. In the report, Zenith Analyst Dugald Higgins said: "The PMO's performance over the longer term has been robust, showing solid returns over the fund's benchmark of the Bloomberg AusBond Bank Bil Index ...

Small funds winning group risk race

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... urgency of APRA's concerns - which were expressed in a letter to life insurers alongside its Quarterly Life Insurance Performance Statistics Report for the March 2015 quarter - Rainmaker's report shows that repricing has been "more moderate than expected." ...

Platform FUM up $660bn

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... outflows also rose 2.8% from $117.2 billion to $120.4 billion. Overall growth was supported by strong investment market performance, though recent volatility has reversed this. All of the leading companies reported significant and mainly double digit ...

Finology expert to address AFA roadshow

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... education philosophy of balancing academic rigour with practical application and connecting knowledge with adviser performance". Lazenby will hold a two hour interactive workshop - "Finology Forum: Conversational methods that accelerate trust" as part ...