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Growth bond plays tax trump card

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
... investments. Investors can choose from nine investment options designed to suit different risk profiles, ranging from conservative to aggressive. The AMP Growth Bond also offers a capital guaranteed investment option, AMP Cash Plus, for investors looking ...

US pension funds review securities lending

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2008
... changed its policies. "Our approach to running our lending program has been consistent all along, which is to say conservative," he said. However, Squillacioti acknowledged that the market overall, lenders and borrowers alike, will be looking a lot more ...

Defeat death taxes when merging accounts

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2008
... will need to determine an investment strategy for the superannuation fund and then orient the new account to more conservative investments, such as fixed interest. Place investments with the greater capital growth potential into the partially tax exempt ...

Shaw grows business in shaky times

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2008
... key staff hire from international finance houses - opportunities that didn't exist over the past four years. "Our conservative growth and stability, combined with the fact that we are Australian owned has resulted in far more enquiries from senior bankers ...

Embracing derivatives: South Korea

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2008
... retail investors in South Korea are active traders, with most having an interest in derivatives trading. However the conservative nature of the nation's brokerage houses and tight regulation have curbed growth of the sector. Others who have suffered ...

Super funds back aircraft fund

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2008
... a new Boeing 777-300r. The fund is Investec's first insto offering in the Australian market. "While we have been conservative in our asset and lessee selection, we are pleased that we have managed to increase assets at an average of US$60m per month ...

Evolution of super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2008
... performance figures. For example, he said fund members need to understand whether the fund's performance was driven by a "conservative" asset allocation, a "growth" strategy and the composition of the fund members under that option, whether they are ...

Till losses do us part

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
... growth option" gained an average 10 per cent plus each year over the past 20 years compared to someone who is on a "conservative option" who gained a lower 8.7 per cent a year. Suppose the same fund member switched out of balanced growth and into the ...

Astarra opens to retail investors

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
Astarra Funds Management's balanced, conservative and growth multi manager funds are now available to retail investors for the first time in more than a decade. All three diversified funds have all been ranked in the top quartile over one, three, five ...

Oil prices force end to corporate profit boom

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2008
... corporate profits have passed their peak and the outlook for share price growth and investor returns is now very conservative. "With downside risks to economic growth having increased, investment returns are likely to be subdued in the period ahead," ...