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Super fund average 14.6% for 2012-13

STAFF WRITERS  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013
Super funds finished 2012-13 achieving a near record breaking 14.6%, the third highest annual return result in the 26 years for which Rainmaker has been collecting records. Explaining why the SelectingSuper Workplace rolling 12 month default option ...

Regulator taking a "facilitative" approach to change

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
The Australia Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft reiterated his support to the financial services industry as it grapples with the implementation of regulatory changes, saying that the regulator would take a "facilitative" ...

A-REITS rewarded for cleaning up act

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... strong inflows over the last 12-18 months, according to research house Lonsec. The Australian Real Estate Investment Trust (A-REIT) sector has risen 24.2% in the 12 months to 30 June to recoup its GFC losses, outperforming both global REITs and wider ...

Market Wrap AM

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after gains on Wall Street with the Dow and the S&P 500 again reaching record highs. At 0756 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was up 20 points at 4,972. No major economic ...

Clear as crystal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
It doesn't get any clearer than this! It's crystal! No more communications breakdown. No more failure to communicate. Big Ben Bernanke has delivered! While it's mostly a reiteration of the repeated message I've been telling you he's been telling us ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on Wall Street after US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said tapering of stimulus measures was not on a "preset course". In testimony to Congress, Dr Bernanke reiterated that the Fed ...

A prince, a princess or a frog?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
Arrrgh! This is becoming so ridiculous it's no longer funny or fun. Bob Dylan must be looking at the 2013 financial markets when he wrote the song 'Blowin' in the Wind' in 1962 and asked, "How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?"...or ...

BlackRock wins four NZ Super mandates

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... four new passive global equities mandates: passive global large cap equity, small cap equity, emerging markets equity and REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) mandates. BlackRock has managed a fixed income mandate for NZ Super since 2010. "Increasing ...

Dismiss fixed income at your peril

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... The Goldman Sachs Income Plus Fund, co-managed by Bell, is made up of cash, Australian fixed interest, global high yield, A-REIT and infrastructure equity assets. It is actively managed to provide investors with tactical weightings to each area as opportunities ...

Once more from the top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
"Do that to me one more time Once is never enough... Say those words again that you just did Oh, baby, tell it to me once again." -Captain and Tennille...and baby, baby, central bankers did it again. Despite the absence of any significant news over ...