Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 5341 - 5350 of 7332 results for "Returns"

Advisers not ready for super changes

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... life-cycling, he said, and using defensive asset allocations at an earlier stage. "There needs to be a focus on certainty of returns. Capital certainty and downside protection," he said.

Goldman Sachs downgraded but fixed interest pays

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... Aside from index managers BlackRock and Vanguard and the benchmark agnostic Vianova, S&P said that all managers provided returns above the UBS Composite Bond Index benchmark in 2010, net of fees. "Investors are paying for active returns and for 2010 ...

Equities don't work in retirement

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... the retirement income products division at Challenger Financial Services, told ABC radio last night that poor investment returns are inhibiting the ability of savers to accumulate capital and inflation is then undermining the spending power of what they ...

Janus sifts through sectors for EM value

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
Investing by sector and not by region is the right way to approach the emerging markets, where easy returns are a thing of the past, according to Janus Capital. Wahid Pierre Chammas, co-portfolio manager of the Janus emerging market strategy, said that ...

Super fund returns fall again to 5 per cent

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
Volatility is back in vogue for super fund rolling 12 month returns as they have again fallen back to 5.0 per cent for the 12 months to end March 2011. Three and five year returns are even less impressive at just 1.3 and 2.3 per cent per annum respectively. ...

Super fund returns fall again to 5 per cent

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
Volatility is back in vogue for super fund rolling 12 month returns as they have again fallen back to 5.0 per cent for the 12 months to end March 2011. Three and five year returns are even less impressive at just 1.3 and 2.3 per cent per annum respectively. ...

CFS tilts at emerging market returns

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
Colonial First State subsidiary Realindex Investments has launched an emerging markets index fund that seeks to remove the drag of weighting distortion with value investing techniques. The fund, which will have fees of 79 basis points per annum and ...

Future Fund dabbles in India

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... delighted to have the Future Fund join as investor in its latest fund. "Our focus is to generate superior risk adjusted returns by investing equity in and building high growth innovative companies across the globe," he said. "Our current expectation ...

ETF provider soothes market over risk issues

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... liquidity issues. Concerns have focused on ETFs using underlying assets unrelated to the index supposedly being tracked, with returns of some products diverging substantially from the indices. Synthetic replication through the use of swaps and derivatives ...

SMSF trustees hit pension payment woe

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... sell something from their portfolio to make the payment. Hutton said this was partly because retirees tend to focus on returns and how long their savings will last while overlooking the need to have cash available throughout the year to make regular ...