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FUM closes in on $2trn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... 12.3%. Meanwhile the five fastest growing asset classes over the year were active extension, private equity, international equities, listed property and combined equities. The retail managed funds sector meanwhile grew just 3.4% in the past four quarters ...

Days of outstanding emerging markets returns numbered

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... period. Emerging markets (unhedged) have returned 9.3% per annum over the period compared to 8.9% from International equities (hedged) and 9.1% from domestic equities. Principal Australia chief executive Grant Forster said that emerging markets investment ...

PROFILE: Invesco CEO Martin Franc

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... terms of my career prospects and it was an easy decision," Franc remembers. He landed a job working on the international equities dealing desk at BT (then Bankers' Trust) back in the days when the firm was managing all the active money for its global ...

IOOF awards $115m global equities mandate

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... dictated by weightings in a traditional market capitalisation index," IOOF portfolio manager for strategy and international equities Stanley Yeo said. "This approach helps to avoid concentration risks that are prevalent in such indices, and reduces security ...

FEATURE: Managing SMSF growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... explains. But why is it so difficult to interest SMSFs in other types of investment such as fixed interest, international equities or alternatives? Some say that SMSFs like to invest in what they are most familiar with. But also SMSFs tend to use cash ...

CFS launches range of SMAs

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... allocation to equities and 1% to cash. The most conservative, meanwhile, has 11% in Australian equities, 9% in international equities, 5% in property securities, 28% in Australian fixed interest, and 15% in international fixed interest.

Future Fund and super returns on par

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... said. Fuelling the Future Fund's returns during the past year has been a reweighting of the portfolio into international equities and alternatives away from debt securities and cash. According to the Future Fund's latest portfolio report its international ...

Leap in appetite for overseas assets

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... the increase in intentions to invest globally. The net percentage of investors intending to allocate to international equities rose to 16% in March (up from 14% in February). Meanwhile, intentions to increase exposure to Australian equities waned, dropping ...

Lonsec launches ETF model portfolios for advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... different risk profiles, from defensive through to high growth and they provide access to Australian equities, international equities, property securities, fixed interest and cash. Lonsec said that the offer will appeal to self-managed super fund (SMSF) ...

EQT Global Equity Fund on BT Wrap and Asgard

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... environment," Myers said. Dundas Global Investors senior partner and founder Alan McFarlane said that investors in international equities will need to pick and choose carefully in 2014. "Equity markets are at valuation levels susceptible to a correction ...