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FEATURE: Inflation plus investing

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... retire," chief investment officer and head of advance asset management Patrick Farrell says. "The overall target return is to get CPI+ for all of our super members," he explains. Typically, the target for someone during the accumulation phase will be ...

QSuper investment philosophy revealed

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
... increased its exposure to unlisted equity, real estate and infrastructure as well as alternative assets. It aims to achieve a CPI plus 3.5% return after fees and tax over rolling 10-year periods. The report said QSuper's investment fees sit in the lowest ...

Room to move on super investment fees

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... billion to $5.5 billion - based on a 0.78% management expense ratio (MER). She said if the investment fees line was aligned with CPI rather than fund growth, fees will fall to about a 0.53% MER. This is assuming CPI growth of about 3% per annum. Over ...

So bad it could only be good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... five times from 6% in October 2014 to 4.6% last month. With inflation far below its 2015 inflation target of 4.0% -- headline CPI inflation rate was 1.6% in July; core inflation at 1.7% -- it could cut some more. And certainly, there's still more room ...

Charter Hall industrial funds swell

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
Charter Hall has acquired around $700 million in industrial assets since 1 July 2015, bringing the group's total industrial and logistics funds under management to $3.5 billion. The $700 million in acquisitions over the past three months have been acquired ...

Super investment fees should align with CPI

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... expense ratio (MER), fees would rise from $3.1 billion to $5.5 billion. However if the investment fees line was aligned with CPI rather than fund growth, fees will fall to about a 0.53% MER. This is assuming a CPI growth of about 3% per annum. Speaking ...

Super Mario returns fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... was in full swing and before the financial market ructions -- from 0.4% in the previous three-month period. Annual deadline CPI inflation has remained stuck at 0.2% in June, July and August and core inflation's unchanged at 1.0% in August from the previous ...

Investing is like a game of tennis

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
The days of CPI plus 5% investment returns for superannuation funds are gone for the foreseeable future according to a United Kingdom based researcher. Speaking at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) conference yesterday, CREATE-Research ...

British Airways to clash in court with pension trustee

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... BA's. In line with the changes, BA's trustee in 2013 awarded a discretionary increase of 0.2% - of half the difference between CPI and RPI - to pensioners in the scheme. BA has blasted the decision as "irrational" and even "perverse". The case comes ...

Investec fund acquires Brisbane property

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... initial passing yield on acquisition is 7.80% pre-transaction costs, and the lease includes annual rental increases linked to CPI. "The acquisition is the eighth property acquired by the fund since our rights issue late last year, reflecting management's ...