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Aon awards mandate to Vanguard

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
... the trustee of the fund, has become "inappropriate for the Aon Master Trust". "Vanguard has a very limited and very conservative approach to lending securities which is better aligned with the Aon Master Trust's risk objectives," noted the statement. ...

Rio Tinto fund tightens buy/sell spread

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2009
... its investment options by 20 per cent, according to a June newsletter to members. For instance, the spread for the conservative option prior to the changes was 0.19 per cent. The spread now sits at 0.15 per cent. The property investment option meanwhile ...

Industrial espionage turns viral

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
... scale, that's like a drop in the ocean. But money is getting lost and most of the cases never get reported [so it's a conservative estimate]," he said. "The bright side of the story is that not everyone is a target. Part of this is industrial espionage ...

AMP clients buy more insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
... think of good times you don't tend to think of the downside risk of things, in uncertain times you tend to be more conservative, more risk averse so it's therefore something that comes to the fore at [this] time," he said.

Signs of a residential property recovery

JOHN KAVANAGH  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... rental markets. The head of property research at ANZ, Paul Braddick said another important factor is that reasonably conservative lending practices in Australia meant there has been no US-style housing collapse. The market is moving back up off a solid ...

Shift to altern assets fuel valuation concerns: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... the tribal warfare between the super fund segments over the question of valuations as recovering equity markets and conservative valuations of unlisted assets combine to crush the gap between not for profit and retail funds. For example, according to ...

Super SA slashes mgmt and admin fees

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2009
... cost 0.48 per cent, 0.22 per cent lower than the previous 0.70 per cent. Similarly the moderate (0.34 per cent) and conservative (0.32 per cent) options are lower than their prior 0.5 per cent and 0.43 per cent respectively. Super SA said that the move ...

Russell overhauls diversified funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2009
... allocation," he said. The process has been integrated into the firm's diversified investment funds. For example, the Russell Conservative fund's Australian equities range has been broadened from between 10-20 per cent to 5-25 per cent. Another example ...

No proof lack of regulation caused GFC: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... dominated by large and, generally, soundly-run financial institutions not prone to excessive risk-taking; and active and conservative prudential supervision." Lewis said that while regulation and active supervision is crucial, so too is "the adoption ...

CSRF lends more weight to domestic equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
... allocation to alternative growth assets at the cost of "defensive" assets. At the same time, CSRF introduced a new "conservative balanced" option, which is a 50-50 split between defensive and growth. This option is designed to return at least 3 per cent ...