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Inflows from overseas double in four years

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
Funds flowing into Australian managed investment trusts from overseas have doubled from $20 billion to $40 billion since 2010, according to a new report by Perpetual and the Financial Services Council. The jointly published 2014 Australian Investment ...

Super returns dip to 9.0 pct

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
... partner, noted that not-for-profit (NFP) super funds achieved 12 month returns of 9.3% and retail funds (ie corporate master trusts and retail MySuper products) achieved 7.9% for a segment gap that has bounced up again to 140 basis points. The researcher ...

Goodbye QE, hello QQE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... maximum compared with the past)." "The Bank will purchase exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and Japan real estate investment trusts (J-REITs) so that their amounts outstanding will increase at an annual pace of about 3 trillion yen (tripled compared with ...

Family trusts overlooked amid SMSF boom

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
Financial advisers are overlooking a huge range of benefits that family trusts have over self-managed super funds for their high net worth clients, according to HLB Mann Judd Sydney head of wealth management Michael Hutton. Hutton said that despite ...

Singapore CPF tightens fee caps

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... more than S$20,000 are allowed to invest in a range of investment choices that include government binds, annuities, unit trusts, shares and selected ETFs. It was established with the CPF for members who wished to take greater investment risk in order ...

ANU divests seven companies, seeks equities manager

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
... considered to be likely to cause substantial social injury" and "positively promote investment in securities, companies, trusts and other entities that support socially beneficial outcomes." ANU has felt significant pressure from a student groups to ...

Super returns lift to 11.1%

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... statement that not-for-profit (NFP) super funds achieved 12 month returns of 11.3% and retail funds (ie corporate master trusts) achieved 10.3% for a 100 basis point segment gap. The long term segment gap is, however, closer to 200 basis points. The ...

Super returns dip but still strong

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... were 6.9% pa. Not-for-profit (NFP) super funds achieved 12 month returns of 10.9% and retail funds (ie corporate master trusts) achieved 9.7% for a segment gap that has jumped back above 100 basis points to 1.3 percentage points. The long term segment ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... reasonably well and with some positive leads from overseas we're on the front foot today," Mr McCarthy said. He added that trusts were outperforming while the general market was well supported. "Almost every sector, barring materials and energy is in ...

Australia's unit trust dictum is killing the funds industry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... view of global tax structures that implicitly assumes investors are from Commonwealth countries and familiar with unit trusts and their single responsible entity structures. While the Asian funds management passport partly addresses this, if it is not ...