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Sluggish growth the new norm: Janus

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... material drop - and the beginning of less volatile, albeit under-whelming earnings cycle characterised by lower return expectations. Once the market progresses through the current trough, Wellso expects to see a notable rotation out of less risky assets ...

Politicking befogs equities: AMP Capital

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... capture the impact thought [sic] a diverse set of investment drivers. "It should dynamically view forward return expectations in the context of downside risk potential at each point of time." Ultimately, the driver for deriving profit from equities will ...

Super loyalty defies low return expectations

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
CoreData research reveals robust investor attachment to non-performing funds. It is investor apathy, argues Kristen Turnbull the researcher's head of advice, wealth and super which led over half of the members surveyed (57%) to suggest they would stick ...

Strategy & name change for Aberdeen fund

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... advice to determine whether this fund's revised investment approach remains consistent with their existing risk/return expectations and how this change might affect their overall investment portfolio.

Towers Watson's clients top $15bn in Smart Beta

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... clients' allocations, is that it allows greater cost management within a fund without sacrificing diversity and return expectations," they said.

Capital protected products under pressure: research

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... Capital protected product usage among investors fell by 9% over the year to December 2011, due to lower market return expectations and concerns related to the European debt crisis, according to a new report by Investment Trends. The Investment Trends ...

Hall charts new value investing model

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
... how this will impact companies and stock prices. As a result, Hall also said investors need to lower their return expectations and accept that 15 per cent return over a long-term period is good enough. "Given all those negatives that are out there, 15 ...

Super funds eye catastrophic investing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
... are unleveraged and the investor's liability is capped. Credit Suisse offers four types of portfolios with return expectations ranging from three-month LIBOR plus 3 per cent to as much as three-month LIBOR plus 20 per cent per year. Niklaus Hilti, the ...

Super funds commit 6pc to private equity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
... towards private equity. Although Australian super funds are optimistic on private equity investments, nominal return expectations from the asset type fell 4.9 per cent to 11.6 per cent per year since the previous survey in 2005. "With a return expectation ...

Managed accounts expands asset mix

... do what superannuation funds do, which award mandates to multiple fund managers depending on their risk and return expectations. It's essentially about moving dealer groups from lower value roles to higher value roles, he said. "Advisers advise the client ...