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Mandate tide turns towards global equities

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... much the size of the initial mandate, but the capacity to grow it in the future." Hill confirmed that the trend for in-housing could also be having an impact. "Of the latest four or five new mandates, two or three have been to our internal team," he ...

Holding pattern

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... the background of steady improvement in the employment and income situation, private consumption has been resilient and housing investment has been picking up." There were differences in inflation though. "Inflation is thus forecast to remain consistent ...

Data doesn't justify "recession" headlines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... rate of 6.3% in August - the fastest in 78 months - from 6.1% in the previous month. The details are even better with housing credit slowing to an annual pace of 9.3% from 11.0% and business credit growth accelerating to 5.3% - the fastest in more than ...

Aussie pension policy needs careful adjustment: IMF

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015
... closer to personal income tax rates would reduce concessions for higher earners and enhance revenue and could improve housing affordability, and financial stability. Adjusting pension policies in particular would need careful calibration and phasing," ...

UK govt tempts super funds with real estate projects

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... - the city's historic docklands site; a Centre for Advanced Knowledge and Engineering in Norfolk; a waterfront luxury housing, retail and winter sports facility in Cardiff; an all-weather tourist resort in the heart of the Peak District National Park ...

HESTA and SVA launch impact investment fund

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... fund, the Social Impact Investment Trust, to allow HESTA to make direct and indirect investments in a range of businesses, housing projects and social impact bonds that deliver both financial returns and identifiable and quantifiable social impact. "We ...

MyPension product to solve retirement income hurdle

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... need to be flexible." In retirement, "there are a variety of circumstances relating to health, income, the partner and housing that we need to recognise." He admitted that "the account based pension, the most popular product, is flexible. But we haven't ...

Give first home buyers access to super: CEDA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
First home buyers should have access to their superannuation funds to purchase owner-occupied housing perhaps in return for the familiy home being counted in the pension assets test, the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) has said. ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... Watt says that Chinese authorities have encouraged retail investment to enter the stock market to cool down the growing housing bubble. Retail investors represent about 85% of the market, while foreign investors are less than 2%. This makes it a highly ...

Investors to get less in coming years

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... last few. We think investors will get less and enjoy the ride worse," he said. "The only bright spot in our economy is housing and that story is pretty mature now. Australia has to get used to GDP growth with a two in front of it rather than with a three ...