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Boomers driving interest in PAFs

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2016
... receiving large amounts of money (over $1 million) and are seeking a solution to provide an enduring benefit. "PAFs are an interest area for baby boomers and an extension of their interests. They are a financial resource to make a difference to other ...

Whitehelm Capital and Prime Super partner for bond investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2016
... large, competitively-bid assets and the pipeline looks excellent for the rest of the year. There's a lot of investor interest in this part of the capital structure given the attractive spread and defensive characteristics: Whitehelm has generated double ...

Factor investing sees new customised approach

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
... want to own tends to have higher required return," Hunstad said. One ESG factor strategy where Northern Trust is seeing interest is investors buying a quality-factor overlay with the highest quality companies in emerging markets who also have the best ...

He pleaded, he promised, he threatened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
... against the greenback since 28 April when the Japanese central bank announced that it would "continue applying a negative interest rate of minus 0.1 percent to the Policy-Rate Balances in current accounts held by financial institutions at the Bank" and ...

SMSFs up property, managed funds exposure

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2016
... 35.8% over the period. Cash and short term deposit exposure stood at 18.4% of portfolios at 31 March 2016 while fixed interest and international equities represented 12.3% and 12.6% respectively. Direct property represents around 78% of the total property ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2016
... Expectations Survey released by the Melbourne Institute shows that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) couldn't have cut interest rates soon enough. Recall that the RBA cut interest rates by 25 basis points to 1.75% after its 3 May Board meeting following ...

Super fund asset class performance disappoints

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2016
... a 10 year basis however this asset class option has outperformed this index. Meanwhile assets options for both fixed interest have on average provided returns lower than the relevant index. Whilst the average return of the market varies from the index ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2016
... item" component increased by 4.9% over the month Despite the strong survey results, Westpac still expects the RBA to cut interest rates further in August "after it has had time to further analyse the inflation trends in the June quarter and the March ...

PIMCO Income fund launched in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016
... fund invests across sectors globally and has the flexibility to manage duration and invest in areas that help manage interest rate risk. Unlike many other income strategies that focus mainly on corporate bonds and can invest without limit in high yield ...

Decimal makes international debut

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016
... financial services companies into joint sales opportunities. We are already actively working together on target accounts. "Interest in robo, and particularly enterprise robo - which means Decimal - is growing almost by the day with banks and the financial ...