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Three funds top Lonsec Ratings

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... participation schemes and creating a more 'boutique-like' structure for investment management personnel." Meanwhile the returns margin has widened significantly over the last 12 months as share market volatility rocked the sector. The worst performing ...

Chile not so hot on fixed income

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... annual yield of certain funds has been 9.48 per cent, including in 1995 and 1998 when the same funds suffered negative returns. In addition, Chile's version of multi-funds have produced an average annual return of 10.47 per cent between 2002 and 2007. ...

Hedge funds slam ban extension

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
... such as super funds, the ability to protect their capital in falling markets. AIMA figures found the latest performance returns indicated short selling is one of the few investment strategies that has delivered a positive return this calendar year. The ...

Fund trades under super watch

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
... of the fund manager's portfolio has changed, including which trades cost the fund some money and those that added more returns. "It's basically a response to the current market situation. We're trying to help super funds monitor the impact of the manager's ...

CSAM opens commodity fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... Management is to offer its enhanced commodity fund to the retail and institutional market as a way for investors to gain returns that are uncorrelated to equity markets. The Credit Suisse Enhanced Commodity Fund was launched roughly two years ago via ...

Cuffe fund outperforms index by 13.8 pc

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... posted a loss, has outperformed the All Ordinaries Accumulation index by 13.8 per cent. "While we aim to outperform the returns of the All Ordinaries Accumulation Index over time, we have considerable flexibility in the type of investments the fund may ...

AustSuper stays cautious

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... investment team "[has] not seen times such as this" and were adjusting their allocation line up to buffer from negative returns. As a result, the fund increased its allocation to cash from less than 2 per cent to 7 per cent in September. The fund also ...

Fees cause underperformance, not asset allocation: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
The latest research paper from APRA confirms that fees are the major difference in net returns between retail and not-for-profit super funds, not asset allocation or differences in account balances. The paper, Investment Performance, Asset Allocation ...

Investors question direct property valuations

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
... Criticism that some funds and their managers use supposedly artificial unlisted property valuations to bolster portfolio returns illustrates how different groups of investors have fundamentally contrasting views about how to interact with the property ...

Time to buy Aus shares

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
... significantly lower price to earnings," said Fiani. "Investors are understandably gun shy, but the best equity market returns are made in times like these, so it is not the time to be gun shy." Fiani may be bullish on Australian equities, but true to ...