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Agile, flexible portfolios big winners for instos

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... broaden credit portfolios. "We expect more investors to diversify away from expensive sovereign debt into a range of corporate and asset-backed varieties. They may be aided in doing so by 'fire sales' of debt by de-leveraging banks," White said. The ...

Pressure on yields continues

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... package, the premier's office told Financial Standard the government would consider a range of funding options. Quality corporate bonds are the preferred option for fixed income investors in 2012, according to both AMP's senior investment strategist ...

Intersuisse pursue Austock Securities

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... arrangements". Austock was first set up in 1991 as a private stockbroking business, since expanding to provide securities, corporate finance, property funds management and life investments to individuals, corporates and institutions. In 2010, former ...

MySuper regulations fundamentally flawed

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
... standards for superannuation providers released in September. The concern on fee levels under MySuper was echoed by the Corporate Super Specialist Alliance (CSSA) in a submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services. ...

Stronger Super draft needs clarity

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
... Superannuation Entity (RSE) licensees, including duties relating to MySuper products, and personal duties for directors or corporate trustees. Also included in the draft are details on the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) with the power ...

NTEU wants changes at UniSuper trustee company

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
... NTEU only being able to nominate a single director of UniSuper trustee board means the fund in practice operates like a corporate superannuation fund rather than as an industry fund that the fund likes to be portrayed as. The high level of employer influence ...

UBS: Diversify to prevent fatigue

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
... large emerging economies have now started to stimulate with lower rates, the recent US data profile has been promising, corporate balance sheets broadly remain in healthy condition versus previous cycles." Persistent volatility has seen investors "fatigued" ...

In superannuation, bigger can be better but not always

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... benefit of their members or to build financial empires. The good news is that research conducted by SelectingSuper and its corporate partner Rainmaker Information reveals that while bigger funds don't automatically out-perform small ones they are ...

Round two of Stronger Super revealed

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2011
... applying new duties to trustees of an RSE that offer a MySuper product and applying personal duties to the directors of corporate trustees in their own right. The bill deals with APRA's power to issue prudential standards in relation to superannuation ...

Super assets take a hit in September

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011
... director of research and product development, Rainmaker Group. According to APRA, the biggest decline in assets was in corporate funds, which decreased by 8.6 % to $54.6 billion in September. Retail fund assets were down by 4.8 % to $351.8 billion, industry ...