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Retirees can increase their withdrawal rate: Milliman

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
Actuarial consulting firm Milliman believes there are retirees who could comfortably increase their standard withdrawal rate by at least 50% per annum. A recent Milliman paper, 'The 6% Rule', aims to answer how retirees can provide for themselves and ...

Link Group moves up in Melbourne

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... be Tower 4 of Collins Square, one of five interconnected commercial towers designed by Melbourne architectural firm Bates Smart. Due for completion in mid-2016, Link Group has also secured naming rights to the building, which will bring together Melbourne-based ...

End heavy weighting in US equities: Tempo AM

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... market had been the top market performer in only three years: 2011, 2013 and 2014. The trend is reflected in Tempo's fund, a smart beta strategy that aims to outperform the MSCI index by investing equal parts of the portfolio in eight different equity ...

Robo advice questions still unanswered

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... reach wide markets. "Robo advisers are very targeted at accumulators, people who are in the on-demand economy, who use the smart phone and want to buy everything - [so] why wouldn't they buy advice?" she said. Bloch said the pre-retirement market is ...

Better to own or to rent investments?

JOHN DYALL  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
The latest fixed income market outlook from BlackRock's Rick Rieder poses the interesting question of whether there are some assets in a portfolio which are there for the long term and others which have a place for a short time, depending on opportunities ...

Don't blame "churning" on advisers: Synchron

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
Risk advice dealer group Synchron has asked industry stakeholders not to blame "churning" of life insurance policies only on advisers and demanded that insurers improve product design. Synchron noted that in the United Kingdom and in South Africa, "companies ...

Tempo finds beta growth in Europe, Asia

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
Boutique fund manager Tempo Asset Management is turning its global smart beta strategy away from the United States and Canada and finding growth in Europe and Asia. Tempo principal Joe Bracken told Financial Standard that the Tempo Global Equity Fund ...

Investors misunderstand smart beta: AXA IM

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
Investors' misunderstanding of 'smart beta' is leading them to inferior products, according to AXA Investment Managers director for Australia, Craig Hurt. Hurt said there is a common misconception that the term refers to indices weighted by some means ...

Media Super doubles investment menu

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
Boutique public offer fund Media Super has defied industry trends by more than doubling the size of its investment menu. Following a strategic redesign, Media Super has increased the number of pooled investment choices from 10 to 23, not including the ...

Van Eck ETFs added to CFS FirstWrap

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... avoids stock concentration in the Australian market." He added, "Financial advisers are increasingly turning to ETFs based on smart beta indices. ETFs can be used to gain targeted exposure for clients' portfolios at a lower cost than actively managed ...