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Tyndall shifts gears on FI

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
Financial planners should encourage clients to reconsider their view on Australian fixed interest, which represents a safe haven investment, said the head of fixed income at a $22 billion fund manager. Roger Bridges of Tyndall Investments Australia ...

Property primed for inflow pick up

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
Fund managers are urging investors not to miss out on property stocks while at the bottom of the cycle because inflows into the sector remain down. Martin Hession, head of property, Australian Unity, said that retail investment in unlisted funds was ...

Investors gearing up again

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... suited those "up the risk spectrum." "The thing to remember is that gearing should be matched to risk profiles and if clients gear higher it does increase the risk of a margin call and we recommend that they keep cash available for that," he said. Westpac ...

Instreet gears up with income supplement

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011

A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
Blink and you would have missed it. Financial markets are back in forward gear once more. They have been over the past three trading days inspite of the severe calamities and geo-political tensions that came their way not even a full three months into ...

Senior departures at Acadian

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
The departure of two senior portfolio managers will not affect the rating of five Acadian Asset Management funds, ratings firm Standard & Poor's said yesterday. The recent loss of Terry Burnham, director of portfolio management and Qi Zeng, portfolio ...

Property funds urged to keep lid on gearing

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
Property investment portfolios should be geared at no higher than 30 per cent, according to real estate investment experts. Speaking at an IMCA seminar, both Leigh Gavin, senior consultant and head of property research at Frontier and Stephen Hiscock ...

Advisers must justify complex products: ASIC

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
ASIC will clamp down on the misuse of Managed Discretionary Accounts (MDAs) and increase scrutiny on advisers recommending capital guaranteed funds. A growing number of advisers are offering structured capital protected and capital guaranteed products. ...

SMSFs increase reliance on ETFs

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
SMSFs are expected to continue raising their allocation into exchange traded funds (ETFs) as a way to ensure low-cost, long-term returns. Almost 50 per cent of financial advisers are now using or evaluating ETFs within their investment portfolios, research ...

ATO shifts gears on SMSF regos

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
Trustees will not be able to register an SMSF until there are assets in the fund under a new ATO system launched late last year. Two months ago, 30,000 SMSFs were reclassified as 'Registered - Status not determined', as part of an incentive to make ...