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Phones and tablets take over online broking

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... Pressure on cost has also increased in the last months due to increased trading frequency and relatively low return expectations. This has given tailwind to low cost brokers and CMC Markets Stockbroking went from 3% to 6% of primary market share and ...

Cbus launches default retirement income stream option

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
... selected or default investment option, the Conservative Growth option captures the lower risk and negative return expectations relative to the Growth Option while also targeting an appropriate and achievable return over the longer term."

Super fund return expectations unrealistic

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
Superannuation funds expecting to achieve 3-4% above inflation on their typical balanced options are likely to be disappointed, according to Credit Suisse Private Banking's David McDonald. The head of strategy and research for Australia told journalists ...

Investor 'fear factor' lowest in 40 months

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
Australian investors are less scared then they have been in more than three years, and stock market return expectations are at a 20 month high. Research group Investment Trends today released the findings of its January 2013 Investor Intentions Index ...

Planners revise down growth expectations

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... cash, up from $56bn in 2011. "Volatility in markets at home and abroad has led planners to revise their market return expectations downward. Financial planners now expect the value of the All Ordinaries to increase by just 7% over 2013, versus 8% for ...

Investor cash obsession worries wealth creators

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... fearful. According to the research house's Self Managed Super Funds Investor Intention Report, one-year capital return expectations may have risen since March 2012, but most trustees are still skeptical about the longer-term trajectory of the market. ...

Sluggish growth the new norm: Janus

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... material drop - and the beginning of less volatile, albeit under-whelming earnings cycle characterised by lower return expectations. Once the market progresses through the current trough, Wellso expects to see a notable rotation out of less risky assets ...

Politicking befogs equities: AMP Capital

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... capture the impact thought [sic] a diverse set of investment drivers. "It should dynamically view forward return expectations in the context of downside risk potential at each point of time." Ultimately, the driver for deriving profit from equities will ...

Super loyalty defies low return expectations

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
CoreData research reveals robust investor attachment to non-performing funds. It is investor apathy, argues Kristen Turnbull the researcher's head of advice, wealth and super which led over half of the members surveyed (57%) to suggest they would stick ...

Strategy & name change for Aberdeen fund

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... advice to determine whether this fund's revised investment approach remains consistent with their existing risk/return expectations and how this change might affect their overall investment portfolio.