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Canadian fund slams investment restrictions

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
Canada's sixth largest pension fund, the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) has called for the Ontario Expert Commission on Pensions to remove rules that restrict how much pension funds can invest in certain assets. The fund claimed ...

Power to the under-40s

Chris Browne, a Victorian-based financial planner who won this year's AFA Rising Star of the Year Award, said there is more to the under-40s segment of the market than meets the eye. Browne was a business development manager at MLC before he decided ...

The future of wealth management

The power of brand, the realisation that choice and flexibility is what we sell, and the evolving definition of balanced investing as alternative assets become mainstream are just three of the trends changing the face of wealth management, said Alex ...

Currency hedging key to international returns

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007
New research from nabCapital suggests currency hedging, more than investment strategy selection, is the key to generating high returns in international equities. Donald Hellyer, managing director and head of insurance and fund manager relations at nabCapital ...

Australians top list but still underinsured

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007
Despite a generally blasA(C) attitude to risk, and 64 per cent underinsurance, Australia still ranks as one of the developed world's best insured nations, according to a new AXA report. The 2007 AXA Protection Report compared attitudes to life risks ...

Credit crunch driving recession fears

SUZY MAC IS ON LEAVE  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2007
The US sub-prime crisis is stretching its tentacles across the globe and is starting to reach mortgage borrowers as far afield as Australia and in the UK. Not because these countries have a sub-prime problem per se but because the US wholesale credit ...

Super funds to invest direct into infrastructure

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2007
The recent surge in superannuation inflows could push funds into direct infrastructure investment, according to Gabriel Szondy, managing director of the Centre for Investor Education. With contributions last financial year up between 23 and 35 per cent ...

ASFA awards Who's Who

ARIA, Sunsuper and Plum Financial were among the winners at this year's ASFA Communications Awards held in Melbourne last night. The ASFA (Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia) Communications Awards was designed to help raise the overall ...

Councils exposed

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2007
Almost a year ago, when local councils started developing an appetite for Collateralised Debt Obligations (CDOs) after tasting their higher yields, concerns were raised over their involvement these kind of riskier investments. Now, with many CDOs exposed ...

Bargains emerge in global REITs

How can a sector move from returning 43 per cent to losing 8 per cent in the space of twelve months? A leading US property expert argues that the massive swipe on the global real estate investment trusts (REIT) sector presents bargain buys not seen ...