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Sunsuper appoints new consultant as model shifts

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011
... "We've got our longer-term strategies but we're looking at what do we do about the shorter-term stuff," said Hartley. "Historically we've tended to have a significant weighting to global macro hedge funds which has given an element of that but we're ...

Super funds call for calm amid market fall

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
... worrying them." The message to the average super fund member though, is to leave things as they are. "We do know that historically people have switched out of one option and into a different option at the wrong time," said Schroder. "It can be a very ...

Fund manager recommends less defensive retirement

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... advising members in that space because I think the income stream product is suitable for a lot more members than historically have used it," said Blakey. "If you have $70,000-80,000 in your super balance, putting that in an income stream can give you ...

Deposits may shield Aussie banks from Greek debt crisis fallout

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... issuance. This year that requirement has dropped to about $90 billion" "That's left them less exposed than they were historically." Prabhu also said that while any increase in funding costs would eat into a bank's margins, interest rates paid on term ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... benefitted on Monday were Telstra, Fortescue, Wesfarmers and Coca Cola Amatil. "It's a number of stocks that have been historically very good stable earners, and have been out of favour recently," Mr Chatterton said. Telstra was up two cents to $3.06 ...

The road to ruin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... report on Greece, Moody's Investors Service says the country's A1 rating and stable outlook are supported by a historically high rate of GDP growth and membership in the Eurozone. GDP growth: 3.9 per cent Unemployment rate: 10.3 per cent Budget ...

Midwinter takes on Coin, Xplan

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... example of that would be something like a data feed, which can be very complicated for an adviser to understand and historically an advisers would have to go an set them all up for themselves," said Julian Plummer, managing director, Midwinter. "However ...

Winton Capital wins Future Fund mandate

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... futures. "We go long or short on 100-plus futures exchanges around the world," he said. Eggar said the portfolio had historically been allocated 34 per cent to commodities -including energies, metals, crops and livestock- 21 per cent to currencies, 20 ...

Silver bullet downs market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
... of Europe. Do I have permission to gloat for this space's prescience? Do I get a thank you for warning about the historically 'sell' month of May? I don't apologise for making light of the renewed volatility in the financial markets, especially when ...

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... downs for the three trading days of May. There are so many explanations why the month of May has been - and is - historically a weak month for equity markets. I don't have time to list them on this space. There's google for those who want to know. But ...