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Super fund returns almost flat

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... backwards from last month when rolling annual losses were 5%. In contrast, direct property earned 9%, international fixed interest earned 11% and domestic fixed interest earned a staggering 13%. The top five Workplace Super funds (by default options) ...

Cost pressures spark Vanguard fee cuts

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... will also halve from 0.36% to 0.18%. The new fee for the AUD hedged iteration will be 0.21% and the Australian Fixed Interest Index Fund will move to 0.24%, meaning equity investing will paradoxically be cheaper than bond investing. "This announcement ...

Towers Watson expands Aus investment team

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... holds a Bachelor of Science (Mathematics and Statistics) from the University of Auckland, joins the Australian Fixed Interest Manager Research Team from Melville Jessup Weaver, a Towers Watson affiliated company in New Zealand. "Ben's move from our New ...

Australian shares outperform all other asset classes

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
Australian shares have outperformed all other asset classes - including residential investment property, fixed interest and cash - over a 20 year period, according to this year's Russell Investments/ASX Long-Term Investing Report. The 14th edition of ...

Tyndall scoops Causeway AM

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
... be completed in early June. Tyndall offers Australian equities, international equities and Australian and global fixed interest funds to retail and institutional investors in Australia. It has over $22bn in funds under management as at 30 September 2011) ...

Private debt gets 'time in the sun'

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... where does it fit in my portfolio?" said Boys. "It can fit in a number of places - some put it into fixed income or fixed interest - depending on their classification. That's because in that bucket they may have a lot of liquid assets so they can afford ...

Bentham attracts new super mandates

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2012
... income stream in an asset that is more resilient than equities," said Quin. Bentham Asset Management is a specialist fixed interest and credit investment manager.

Australia's finely balanced $376bn budget

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
... rates dropping so deeply is also expected to see further falls in the AUD and push up bond prices which should see fixed interest returns staying comfortably in double digit territory thus maintaining pressure on super fund trustees to increase their ...

Super funds continue to recover

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
... returns are explained by Australian shares losing 6% over the 12 months to end March 2012. In contrast, domestic fixed interest and direct property both earned 10% and international fixed interest earned 11%. The top five Workplace Super funds (by default ...

GESB awards $2.3bn in bond mandates

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
... approximately $1.6bn invested in global government bond investment strategies and nearly $1.8bn in diversified fixed interest investment strategies.