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Yields above 10% up for grabs in unlisted property

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
... infrastructure assets. Harrington explained that provided investors were happy to put their money away for six years, the returns were very attractive. "Liquidity is not an issue for most self-managed super fund investors because they can't touch the ...

Super funds urged to rethink 70/30 structure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2013
... deliver satisfactory investment outcomes to members in retirement, according to State Street Global Advisors (SSgA). While returns on this sort of fund were almost 15% for the last financial year, over the past five years the figure is considerably lower ...

Retirees unlikely to recover GFC losses: Cooper

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013
... have a balance of $322,015. "I'm not advocating that investors try to time the market, but given the poor sequence of returns faced by retirees living on their super during the GFC, they may have been better off if they'd switched to defensive or conservative ...

Perpetual attributes FUM decline to market falls

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
... said a decrease of $200 million in FUM as a result of a lower domestic equity market was partially offset by the excess returns delivered by the majority of the group's Australian Equity funds. It also saw net outflows of $500m, compared with $300m in ...

AIST calls for accuracy on product dashboard

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
... achieved," AIST's executive manager of policy David Haynes said. He recommended APRA to demand a 75% probability that expected returns will be achieved. "Consumers would reasonably expect that the trustee of the super funds they were comparing had a ...

Acorn appoints Asia Small Cap portfolio manager

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
... spending a great deal of time in Asia visiting companies and talking with management, and this is already delivering good returns for investors," Loh said. The Acorn Capital Asia Small Cap Fund was launched in November 2012. Since inception it has returned ...

Fidelity launches new mid-small cap Australian equity fund

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
... telecommunications sectors. The investment process focuses on stocks with good management teams, which have rising and sustainable returns which can be reliably reinvested to fund further growth. The diversified portfolio aims to be resilient to market ...

Super fund returns as good as it gets

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
Super funds on track to deliver average returns for 2012-13 of 15%, the third best in the past 26 years, demonstrate how fund members who kept their nerve after the GFC are now reaping the benefits. The result is based on preliminary analysis of Rainmaker's ...

IFM's FUM surges by 34% on global support

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... reaching almost $2 billion in the North American and European markets. "A key feature of the past year has been our strong returns, which have led to increased global support for IFM, which in turn has enhanced our capacity to provide scale benefits ...

A-REITS rewarded for cleaning up act

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... have led to A-REITs being able to raise their creditworthiness, the past continues to haunt fund managers' longer-dated returns. The strong performance of the last 12-18 months is coming off a low base and the average long-term investor has underperformed ...