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Only 7% of fund members switched options during GFC: study

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
Super funds build their systems around investment choices yet even in response to the GFC, only a small proportion of fund members changed their investments. A research paper just published in the Australian Journal of Management, titled 'Retirement ...

Model portfolios vulnerable to avoidable risks

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
... risk management remained heightened against the backdrop of large economic and financial imbalances left in the wake of the GFC.

AXA IM launches two SmartBeta products

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
... funds are still grappling to strike the right cost/ return balance to deliver the best outcome for members. "Following the GFC, many local and global investors shifted their active global equity funds to passive management and by and large that has proven ...

UK multi-asset favourite pushes for super fund mandates

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
... management Guy Stern says one of the reasons it has been so popular is that it is specifically designed to mitigate against GFC-style shocks to the system, providing a more consistent, predictable return over the long-term. "There's no client anywhere ...

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MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... Financial Standard, we publish our feature report on Australian equities and what fund managers got right - and wrong - since the GFC. The past two weeks also saw a raft of executive appointment changes, product launches and superannuation mandate announcements. ...

Hedge fund inflows set to double

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2013
... he said. Korinke went on to explain that macro hedge fund strategies, which performed so strongly in the aftermath of the GFC, may have had their day in the sun. "Macro funds tend to be focused on fixed interest assets in the US, Germany and Japan, but ...

Investors overlook US recovery

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... pointed to high levels of cash being held on US corporate balances sheets, the fact that consumers had now paid down debt to pre-GFC levels and the certainty that now existed following the complex sequestration problem as clear signs of an improving ...

Green, green grass of home

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... despite being subjected to the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997/98, the bursting of the dotcom bubble in 2000, September 11, 2001, GFC of 2008...and Julia Gillard. The US has had two over that same period - one in 2001 and another in 2007-2009. Growth ...

Strong returns help UniSuper stave off benefit review

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... savings. A review and possible lowering of UniSuper DB benefits became a possibility when low investment returns during the GFC saw the division's Vested Benefits Index and Accrued Benefits Index fall below sustainable levels. But much stronger than ...

Fee for service mortgage broking for $3500

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... Mortgage broking going fee for service is another sign of structural change within a sector than has contracted 15% since the GFC from an estimated 14,000 to 12,000 brokers due to increasing dominance of the main banks in the residential mortgage market ...