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Active management offers little value: Towers Watson

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
Institutional investors are getting little value from active management and must focus on total returns to remain competitive, according to Towers Watson global head of investment Chris Ford. Speaking at the 2014 Towers Watson Ideas Exchange in Melbourne ...

AMP Capital wins large Australian equity mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... the highest conviction ideas of the team," Pandit said. The concentrated strategy aims to provide investors with strong returns through all market environments by investing in companies that exhibit under-appreciated earnings potential. Pandit said the ...

Singapore CPF tightens fee caps

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... established with the CPF for members who wished to take greater investment risk in order to achieve higher investment returns noting that the conservatively invested CPF guarantees returns in its regular division of between 3.5% and 5% pa. Fee caps in ...

RI sector outperforms ASX 300: Lonsec

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... Equity Responsible Investment Sector Review. The report revealed that Lonsec's Australian equity RI peer group averaged returns of 15.7% for the year to August 2014 and 17.1% per annum for the three year period. This compares with an ASX 300 index performance ...

Super squabble beyond the joke: Taxpayers Australia

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... John Brogden said: "The Government has a genuine opportunity to further reduce fees in superannuation and boost member returns by opening up the default superannuation market to competition. "I want to strip away the debate and show the Fair Work Commission ...

Custodians make managers more accountable: BNP Paribas

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... sticking to their strategy, he said, then they are doing what they are supposed to be doing. "I'm not employing them to chase returns in different markets. I don't want that correlation, I don't want that concentration risk." Most super funds, he said ...

ISA proposes new restrictions on retail super

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... Whiteley. He also argued they should also be banned from paying shareholder dividends until they have delivered median returns to members. Whiteley made these two proposals in an address to the National Press Club in Canberra yesterday. Financial Services ...

Future Fund reaches $104bn, earns 14pct

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... and non-mainstream assets, added Rainmaker. Despite its bespoke asset allocation, the Future Fund achieved investment returns only slightly ahead of regular super funds. According to a statement released by the fund, it earned 14% during 2013-14 which ...

Active and passive funds are not mutually exclusive

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... remain invested long enough, at least through one economic cycle, to give the manager enough time to generate the positive returns sought."

Real return funds growing in stature

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... cycle. Zenith also warned that there is a wide range of funds in the sector, with some funds aiming to achieve much higher returns than others. Those with higher return targets are more likely to use complex strategies such as leverage and shorting and ...