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WAM Capital profit triples

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2016
... outperformance of the market. After tax profit rose 224.9% from $23 million in the same period in 2014, while the investment portfolio rose 25.6% for the 12-month period to 31 December 2015, outperforming the S&P/ASX All Ordinaries Accumulation Index ...

Morningstar says retirees need balance

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016
... money over a 30-year retirement period, Morningstar finds greater certainty comes with fewer equities in an investment portfolio. "Once you are at the 70% [success] probability level, more equities produces higher withdrawal rates although most of this ...

Impact investments the next wave for RI

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2016
Impact investments are seen as the next wave to flow from the global trend of purchasing alternative assets to help build responsible investment portfolios. In its 2016 Responsible Investment Outlook, AXA Investment Managers said impact investing will ...

CalPERS chief executive retires

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016
... executive. Under Stausboll's leadership CalPERS integrated environmental, social and governance factors in to its investment portfolio; it navigated sweeping reforms and laws related to placement agents; it implemented a risk mitigation policy and an ...

Canadian pension funds keeping eyes on Aussie infra

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
... for 9.8% of PSP's real estate portfolio. In terms of infrastructure, Australia makes up 8.3% of that PSP investment portfolio. Meanwhile in its natural resources portfolio PSP said it had formed a platform to further invest in Australian cattle assets ...

ETFs to see $8bn surge in 2016

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
Exchange-traded funds may see over $8 billion in new investments in 2016, according to Van Eck Australia managing director Arian Neiron. Neiron attributed this figure to the rapid growth of new money in ETFs in response to declining share markets. "Market ...

AustralianSuper merges investment options

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... Australian dollars to reduce the impact of currency movements. The International Shares option keeps the same investment portfolio but without currency hedging. Australia's largest super fund says its International Shares option has benefited from the ...

Frontier Advisors appoints infra specialist

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2016
... consultant. Prior to joining Hastings in 2008, he had an eight-year stint managing UniSuper's infrastructure investment portfolio and five years with William M Mercer across its actuarial consulting and asset consulting practice groups. The appointment ...

ACBC adds further XTBs

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2015
The Australian Corporate Bond Company (ACBC) has made four more XTBs (exchange traded bond units) available on the ASX. The release is the company's third tranche in as many weeks and takes the stable of XTBs to 33 in total. The latest release expands ...

AB calls for three-stage CIPR

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015
... increasingly benefit from being in that longevity pool." AB research suggests drawing down from a $100,000 investment portfolio from age 65 and purchasing an annuity at 75 could result in income of $4900 a year, on average. This is compared to $4550 ...