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Smart beta ETF take-up to double in 2013

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
UBS Global Asset Management expects the popularity of 'smart beta' exchange traded funds (ETFs) to double by the end of the year. According to UBS, SMSF trustees' and financial advisers' rising acceptance of these types of products is fuelling rapid ...

Second UK client for IRESS

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
Software provider IRESS has secured its second major client in the United Kingdom. Wealth management company Towry has confirmed it will use IRESS's XPLAN software in its 18 offices across the United Kingdom. Towry's implementation of XPLAN is already ...

Instos on verge of piling into Asian bonds

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
Australian institutional bond investors are considering increasing their allocations to Asia Pacific, where record levels of bond issuance are broadening opportunities for diversification and relatively high returns. AllianceBernstein director of Asia ...

CFSGAM inflation plus fund targets post-retirement market

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
Outcome-orientated investment approaches that target a specified return are well suited to clients in the post-retirement phase of their investment journey, according to CFSGAM's multi asset solutions team. Head of multi asset solutions Epco van der ...

Industrial property funds draw SMSFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
... class assets," Stacker told Financial Standard. Charter Hall has been able to see this trend through a Direct Industrial Fund (DIF) launched in 2011, as well as on DIF2, released on December 2012. The property fund manager raised $120 million in equities ...

CalPERS cry foul play, backs lawsuit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
The largest public pension fund in the US, CalPERS, has expressed its support for the US government's civil lawsuit against credit rating agency Standard & Poor's Rating Services. Early this month, the US Department of Justice sued the agency for fraud ...

Quality of Spain and Poland belies credit rating

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
Poland, Chile and Spain look a better bet than the US and UK for institutional investors' sovereign debt portfolios, according to a new research report from AXA Investment Management. The investment house has developed a new framework for analysing ...

Simple diversification better than 'smart beta'

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
keep your investments diverse and stay the course. That is the advice from Vanguard's chief economist in Europe, on the best way to design portfolios to adapt to the economics woes gripping the euro zone. Dr Peter Westaway explained how probable different ...

Retail investors need new defensive investments

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
Australian retail investors should consider managed credit funds, as term deposit rates are set to drop, said head of credit markets at AMP Capital Jeff Brunton. A global low interest rate environment will eventually force Australian banks to pay out ...

Broken 'contribs law' needs fixing: SPAA

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
The rules that limit how much money people can put into their superannuation fund are not working and need to be changed, an industry expert said yesterday. Speaking at SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia's ( SPAA) conference in Melbourne ...