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Retirement income the big challenge

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2012
... "You're going to rely on both, but our guess is you're going to come to impute a great deal of importance to that income stream because it's easy." McFarlane holds that people tend to get too preoccupied by share price, but predicts the focus of capital ...

SSgA launches two fixed income ETFs

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012
... safe and transparent access to high quality fixed income assets which generate a regular and largely predictable income stream." SSgA said that its new SPDR ETFs are the first to track indices from the S&P/ASX Australian Fixed Income Index Series. This ...

Investors ignoring credit

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... diversification. With investors shying away from the volatility of equity markets, credit provides a predictable and regular income stream with minimal capital volatility," he said. Because of increasing volatility fatigue, and the resulting flight to ...

NAB launches margin loan product for SMSFs

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
NAB Wealth has launched NAB Super Lever, a standard margin loan product that lets SMSF investors borrow money to invest in listed shares and unlisted managed funds. The product allows self managed super fund (SMSF) investors to borrow a minimum of $20,000 ...

Corporate bonds stagnant in Australia

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
Corporate bonds are popular now among Australian investors but Swiss-based independent active alternatives investment manager GAM said they still need to be aware of the sector's risks. Corporate and securitised bonds comprise $55bn or 10% of the Barclays ...

Aust needs better PPP infra structures: Greiner

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
... benefit arrangement was as high as 77%, according to Statistics Canada. DB being so dominant makes investing for income stream so important. This contrasts with Australia, where 47% of accounts are defined benefit, according to 2011 APRA data. Greiner ...

HESTA income stream phases out risk

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
... retirement product thinking on its head." HESTA's new investment strategy for the fund's post-retirement product - HESTA Income Stream - is designed to automatically reduce exposure to higher-risk assets over time. "We established a cross-disciplinary ...

GREITS for the best property on the planet

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... property but not all can get exposure to premium property," he added. "The quality and sustainability of the GREIT's income stream are other factors," said Vincent Felteau, the Presima portfolio manager in charge of their investments in the developed ...

Older investors dumping equities

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
Investor sentiment measured by actual investment decisions of managed funds investors continues to be weak despite other recent survey-based results suggesting an uplift, said Colonial First State Global Asset Management. The CFS-UWA Business School ...

Coalition releases super manifesto

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... transparency to enable consumers to easily compare funds, review and remove regulatory barriers impeding availability of income stream retirement products, and subject to Budget constraints, restore the higher contribution caps. A Coalition government ...