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Falling gold price a buying opportunity

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
... undervalued. While gold is not a mainstream investment for superannuation funds in Australia, Laidler said ETF Securities institutional clients typically have around a 6-8% allocation. However, that exposure has risen to the 8-12% range in light of the ...

Bond investors beware interest rate risk

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
Institutional investors who focus their investment strategies too heavily on the 'great rotation' out of bonds and into equities are likely to be caught out by the inherent risks that still pervade the market, according to a new report from the BlackRock ...

Annuities boost Challenger growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
... half-year results announced this morning. This includes growth of $1.06 billion in retail sales and $921 million in institutional sales. The wave of Baby Boomers coming into retirement, retirees' preference for secure and guaranteed income investments ...

Guardian Advice unveils mentoring and equity partnership program

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
... recruiting new advisers," Harris said. Some of those are newly graduates, while others advisers come from bigger institutional organisations. However, Guardian has also picked some of the 150 former AAA advisers after the Australian Securities and Investments ...

AvSuper appoints Perpetual for a $75m equities mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... equities mandate is now part of Perpetual's Concentrated Equity strategy. The portfolio had $2.1 billion of retail and institutional client assets as at December 2012. In the 2012 calendar year, the Wholesale Concentrated Equity Fund returned 24.5% (before ...

PineBridge pitches quant solution to super funds

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... approaches are increasingly relevant to Australian investors. "We've been meeting with superannuation funds and other institutional investors to pose the Quantitative Enhanced Indexing approach as a potential solution to this problem," Thorn added.

CBUS to review custody operations

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... itself. CBUS has appointed Drew Vaughan to conduct the RFP. Vaughan has more than 25 years' experience consulting to institutional superannuation funds and funds management organisations. The review is expected to take a few months and a final decision ...

Smart beta ETF take-up to double in 2013

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... he continued. Aside from the rapidly growing SMSF sector, Small says there is room for plenty of take-up from the institutional market as well. "Institutions hold around 70% of the ETF market globally but in Australia that proportion is more like 20%. ...

Instos on verge of piling into Asian bonds

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
Australian institutional bond investors are considering increasing their allocations to Asia Pacific, where record levels of bond issuance are broadening opportunities for diversification and relatively high returns. AllianceBernstein director of Asia ...

CFSGAM inflation plus fund targets post-retirement market

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
... targets 4.5% above inflation over a rolling five-year period which makes it suitable for any investor - retail or institutional - with a spending need. "Many products still focus on relative return forgetting that every investor has an ultimate necessary ...