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Equities don't work in retirement

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
High equity weightings in accumulation superannuation are unsuited to retirement funds, presenting a big opportunity to life offices and super funds to create products that mimic the age pension. Jeremy Cooper, former head of the Superannuation System ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
The Australian market has received mixed leads from offshore trading overnight. Wall Street ended slightly lower after recouping earlier losses, while European markets were lower and Asia was mixed. Oil and gold hit new highs. At 0722 AEST on the ASX ...

Managed fund for charity pays dividends

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2010
Chris Cuffe's Third Link Growth Fund is yet to reach its $150 million goal but has already achieved its more noble goal - delivering a $45,000 cheque to charities each month. Two years on, the fund has pooled more than $40 million in funds under management ...

Focus on dividend outcome: Insync

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
Planners under pressure from clients to prioritise long-term income over capital growth should take note of a fresh strategy from new entrant Insync - a specialist global equities fund manager. Monik Kotecha, chief investment officer of the three-month ...

CFS adds muscle to distribution team

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... George Walker, have joined the Queensland and New South Wales-based teams respectively. Rounding up the new appointments are Mim Psakis and Dino Cataldo who have been appointed new platform BDMs to the team. Despite these additions, Barett confirms that ...

Australia is Asia's biggest investment market

SUZY MAC IS ON LEAVE  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2007
As Australia re-launches its financial services export drive, it's worth reminding ourselves where we sit in the world's pecking order. With this in mind, the latest Benchmark Report from InvestAustralia makes for very encouraging reading notwithstanding ...

Enhanced index tips over $10bn

State Street Global Advisors' Global Index Plus strategy has attracted more than $10 billion in funds under management, clocking more than a billion each year since launch, as more super funds shift their money from 'vanilla' index portfolios to those ...

...meanwhile hedge fund sector returns can be synthesised

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2007
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) said most of the returns for the hedge fund sector can be explained by their asset allocation, meaning it is possible to assemble a synthetic investment strategy to mimic hedge fund sector returns. Paul Brakke, a ...

QSuper ploughs $2b into derivatives and swaps

Super fund QSuper has taken the extraordinary step of investing around $2 billion in derivative and swap contracts that mimic the performance of inflation-linked bonds as an alternative to buying the real thing. As the name suggests, inflation-linked ...

Plum head of business departs

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2006
... combined $7.3 billion in assets and 115,544 member accounts. Among the group's biggest clients are British American Tobacco, MIM, St George, Hewlett-Packard, McDonalds and Freehills.