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Retirees should expand asset classes

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... funds. [Also] rather than taking a constant level of income, retirees could vary their income according to the performance of their investments," Bint said. AllianceBernstein (AB) chief investment officer Australian equities, Roy Maslen also told Financial ...

TAL, Zurich dominate life awards

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... options across different insurance products. Canstar research manager Mitchell Watson added that "reporting on the performance of the life insurance sector for the period ending 31 December 2014, APRA's figures show that $7.032 billion was paid in death ...

Women fail to break into the industry's last boys club

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... trillion (US$12.6 trillion) funds management sector. Despite the fact that the sample is small, Morningstar found that performance of funds managed only by women is higher than that of funds run by men; while performance of funds managed by men and women ...

S&P launches sinner-free index

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... provider Global X for product development. "It is important that investors now have a representative measure of the performance of those S&P 500 companies that adhere to the Socially Responsible Investment Guidelines as outlined by the United States ...

Future Super launches fossil free index

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
... increase in the next 12 months. "While a consistent stream of research has been released pointing to the poor recent performance of fossil fuel exposed companies, our fossil fuel free indices will provide potential investors with a day by day analysis ...

ClearView life insurance drives $20m profit

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... product, WealthFoundations. "It is exciting to be part of a growing organisation such as ClearView as reflected by the performance of our business," said ClearView managing director Simon Swanson. He added, "FY15 included the successful merger and integration ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... because companies have underperformed in an earnings basis over the last year." Pearce is looking closely at the performance of the mandates managed by BlackRock, T.Rowe Price and Schroders. "We are losing patience; if earnings don't start to show signs ...

Below benchmark performance hurts Platinum

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... increased despite an increase in the Platinum Group's profit and FUM." Bonuses at Platinum are linked to investment performance of all client funds relative to the benchmarks over the preceding one and three year periods. Below benchmark returns also ...

Infrastructure deals fall as valuations skyrocket

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... they have become accustomed. Only time will tell whether large asset prices will have an effect on the overall performance of unlisted infrastructure funds currently investing capital."

Long term super fund returns approach record levels

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... the short term slowdown in capital market returns, over the year growth assets nevertheless underpinned the solid performance of MySuper options. International equities and A-REITs earned +25% and +20% respectively. It's worth noting too that over the ...