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Aust real estate investors staying home

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
... in domestic rather than overseas real estate over the next 12-18 months, according to Anne Breen, head of real estate, research and strategy at Standard Life Investments. Breen said at this stage in the economic cycle investors are more likely to invest ...

HESTA income stream phases out risk

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
... options, until they are only invested in the Defensive option. Fowler said that the new income product was the result of research that showed member's wanted a simple post-retirement strategy, where exposure to riskier assets declines over time - without ...

Aust funds trail world in alternatives

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
... retail funds where their alternatives allocation averages only 6%, less than one-third the global average, according to research from Rainmaker. Goss said that driving the push to higher use of alternatives is a desire by pension fund trustees around ...

Macquarie AS updates term deposit offering

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... advisers to spend less time on administration and more time on delivering value through advice." The updates come as research from the April 2012 Investment Trends Self Managed Super Investor Report confirms that a third of SMSFs intend to invest in ...

Morphic Asset Management opens for business

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... the Morphic Global Opportunities Fund (MGOF), will invest in global equities, using a combination of individual stock research and economic 'top-down' analysis. "Despite market chaos, equities are one of the few ways to protect wealth and so if you combine ...

ASFA backs CSIRO/Monash superannuation research alliance

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has released a discussion paper in support of the research alliance between the Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Monash University. "We look forward to working with the ...

Advisers positive about fee for service

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... message would be to start increasing their focus as a matter of urgency." Viskovic said that over half the advisers in the research estimate that it took them over six months to create their pricing model and 95% estimated it took them a year or more ...

Provident Capital leaves 3500 investors in limbo

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012
... position. "Our primary concern was the responsible entity of that fund," Louis Christopher, managing director of SQM Research told Financial Standard today. "Given the fact this was a private company and we couldn't get access to all the line items ...

ISN releases super returns persistency report

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012
... metrics limits the usefulness of the report's findings. Nonetheless, the report indirectly supports findings of Rainmaker research conducted several years ago that found persistency in market rankings of default options in workplace super funds. This ...

Regulation biggest concern for SFOs

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... market volatility (10%). Spending levels of family members (5%) and family discord (4%) ranked lower down the list. The research found 73% considered preserving wealth the most important component in investment management, with only 22% identifying maximising ...