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Starved infrastructure will bite into growth

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
Opposition Leader, Kevin Rudd, played the political magician last night by pulling some surprising economic and political rabbits out of the hat, but there's still no talk of feeding our starved infrastructure any time soon. If anyone was wondering ...

Navigator broadens its horizons

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2007
... available across the Navigator Personal Retirement Plan and the Personal Investment Plan. Responding to interest in more conservative, less accumulation-focused funds, Navigator has moved to incorporate more diversified and global funds, with the noticeable ...

NZ Govt appoints KiwiSaver defaults

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2007
... of employees in KiwiSaver," said Dalziel. Dr Cullen said the risk profile for the default investment product was conservative and offered a lower degree of risk, while providing moderate returns over the longer term. Dr Cullen said the appointments of ...

HOSTPLUS tailors fin lit to Gen X and Gen Y

... the average age being 27. "This youthfulness brings contemporary attitudes that are at odds with the traditionally conservative culture and the unadventurous topic of superannuation," he said. Unlike many financial seminars tailored for babyboomers ...

Fund of LaSalle funds will cut fees

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2007
... investors, UK based Paul Richards, director, indirect investment strategies, said globally LaSalle adopted a somewhat conservative stance, preferring to weigh up the risk versus return prospects regionally and move into the more attractive environments. ...

Lock up your gains: AUI

... said people about to retire should check the asset classes in which their super is invested in and consider a more conservative allocation to lock the gains they've made from the bull run in the past few years. "Many pre-retirees are, understandably ...

Stenham wins best long-term FOHF

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2007
... clients deserve." He said his business was built on discipline and focusing on the needs of its investors. "We have a conservative client base, with a healthy mix of institutional investors and high net worth clients who are seeking absolute returns ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2007
... distributions that start to filter out to the market," Mr Spiteri said. "In anticipation of that, we are (seeing) some conservative buying across the banking sector." By 1205 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 18.4 points at 5917.9, while the ...

Time to talk about asset classes: MTAA Super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
Rapidly evolving investment attitudes to using risk criteria when assembling portfolios is challenging conservative and out-dated views about how we categorise assets, said Paul Watson, deputy executive director of award winning industry fund MTAA Super. ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2007
... contract was 18 points higher at 5,643 on a volume of 13,475 contracts. NEW YORK - US technology stocks declined after a conservative forecast from Apple Inc surprised investors, while blue-chip stocks were up slightly. Based on the latest avaliable ...