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Macquarie Australia's favourite finance brand on social media

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2016
Macquarie has beaten the big four banks when it comes to customer engagement and is the favourite Australian finance brand on social media, according to a new report from NetBase. The finance love list is part of the NetBase Top 50 Love List which examines ...

Lonsec increases global exposure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2016
... return outcome over the long term." Across non-traditional risk profiles, which include alternative assets, global fixed interest and diversified income weights were increased across the defensive and conservative risk profiles, funded by declines in ...

Valuation dispersion creating opportunity for instos to retilt

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2016
... said institutions must now ask themselves the question of whether they continue on in that vein in an environment where interest rates seem unlikely to rise, or do they retilt their portfolios for the eventual return to value. Pzena believes one of the ...

Current super objective "un-Australian"

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2016
... purpose to merely substitute or supplement the age pension. The super fund representative body is urging people to take interest in the federal government's consultation on super's objective because it will affect them and future generations. "What we ...

A-REIT added to Asgard platform

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2016
... on individual merit and not benchmark weights. Portfolio manager Winston Sammut said: "The addition reflects growing interest in, and support for, an A-REIT securities fund that looks outside the mainstream S&P/ASX 300 A-REIT Index for investment opportunities." ...

AustralianSuper and IFM seek energy asset

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... Ausgrid acquisition process, both IFM Investors and AustralianSuper submitted an unsolicited proposal to purchase a 50.4% interest in a 99-year lease. NSW Treasurer Gladys Berejiklian said the institutional investors' proposal "is another indication ...

Life insurance reforms to be re-introduced

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
A spokesperson for the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer has confirmed to Financial Standard that draft legislation pertaining to the Life Insurance Framework (LIF) will be formally re-introduced in early October when Federal ...

Central banks still got their mojo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... Strengthening Monetary Easing: "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing with Yield Curve Control" alongside not taking interest rates further down into the negative. Wall Street rallied - S&P up 1.1%; Dow up 0.9%; Russell 2000 up 1.4% and the Nasdaq ...

Unlisted ag funds hit $22bn

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
... multi-region focused and $300 million was allocated to European assets. "Agriculture has attracted greater levels of interest from institutional investors in recent years, as they seek to position themselves to take advantage of growing demand for food ...

Ageing population presents investment potential

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
... in shaping society's infrastructure demands. "Japan's REIT market is well established, aided by a long history of zero interest rates and the resulting appetite for yield. The emerging senior housing opportunity could be the catalyst for both Korea and ...