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Super to engender securitisation 'rebirth': Brogden

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... much money available that we look for very long-term, very predictable assets in Australia with good, strong, predictable returns. You can't go far past home mortgages if you're looking for that. "Australians have a cultural connection with housing that ...

The Infrastructure Fund looking to add to Port of Newcastle purchase

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... continue to seek out and invest in infrastructure assets that will help Australia build its productive capacity and deliver returns that will boost the retirement savings of working Australians. TIF was formed in 1997 by a group of industry superannuation ...

Super on track for double-digit year

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... February but up very marginally from 12.5% at end January. At end December it was 16.1%. Three year super fund average annual returns were 8.1% pa, five year average annual returns were 9.7% pa and 10 year average annual returns were 7.0% pa. Not-for-profit ...

Growth of institutional infrastructure demand revealed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... an estimated aggregate deal value of $127 billion. "With investors continuing to search for yield and strong long-term returns to meet future liabilities, as well as seeking to avoid third party manager fees, direct investment activity by institutions ...

Future Fund and super returns on par

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
The Future Fund has achieved rolling 3 year returns of about 9.5% pa, putting the de facto sovereign wealth fund on par with workplace super funds when the Future Fund's tax-free and member-free status is taken into account. The $98 billion Future Fund ...

Bring in Chilean-style super tender process: Grattan Institute

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... than $250,000, or 27%. It also found that funds charging higher fees (generally retail funds) actually deliver inferior returns to lower-cost super funds (generally industry or public sector funds). The solution to this is a government tender process ...

Catholic Super seeds new AllianceBernstein fund

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... the tendency-as shown by studies in many markets-for portfolios of low-volatility stocks to produce higher risk-adjusted returns over time than portfolios of high-volatility stocks. This can offset low-volatility stocks' tendency to underperform in bull ...

JANA awards $385m mandate to Californian manager

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... profitable re-investment back into the company. Causeway believes risk is best measured by the volatility of a portfolio's returns, not its dispersion from a benchmark and that over the long term, investors are rewarded by being exposed to less volatility. ...

Big obstacles for funds going it alone on PE

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
Private equity (PE) returns may be stronger than we think and while this is attracting super funds to direct their own PE investment placements, this approach is not for everybody, reveals new research from McKinsey & Company. The global management ...

Professor proposes cheap longevity insurance design

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... said. He suggested the return-contingent life annuity could kick in only when, say, the ASX 200 had negative compound returns. Milevsky said that Australia had a great advantage over countries like the United States because the system here is relatively ...