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Insto property investors forced overseas

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
... the Emerald City. LaSalle has partnered with local developers to build 7,000 new apartments in Sydney, Gray said, with a focus on inner urban residential development. The asset manager has about $US2 billion of office, retail, residential and hotel assets ...

Insto investors confront liquidity crunch

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
... Street Global Advisor's Investment Solutions Group. "This has led to the adoption of new asset allocation frameworks that focus on optimising the trade-off between risk and return based on the unique characteristics of each portfolio," said Farley. Asset ...

Manual corporate actions processing costly: DST

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
Mistakes, delays and sub-optimal investment decision making associated with the manual processing of corporate actions is costing Australian investors millions of dollars annually. This was the missive delivered by Geoff Harries, global head of asset ...

Super fund returns dip back below double-digits

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
... The top five Personal super funds (by balanced options) over the 12 months were ANZ OneAnswer with 12.0%, Perpetual Wealth Focus with 10.6%, Colonial FirstChoice with 10.5%, REST with 10.4% and First State Super with 10.1%. The top five public offer ...

LGS wins Best Green Super Fund Award

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
... expanded to include the LGS global government bond strategy, by way of a $170 million diversified portfolio with an explicit focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks. Other 2012 ESG activities which contributed to LGS's receipt of this ...

Regal Long Short Aust EF 'highly recommended'

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... another fund at capacity - had demonstrated a sound awareness of investor priority. Lonsec also maintains that the Manager's focus is on delivering performance outcomes for investors, not increasing company revenue via FUM growth. While Regal started ...

Life-cycle funds boost retirement income: Mercer

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... age of the individual fund member. "Using this approach, members start with a high growth strategy and a heavy equities focus and then reduce their exposure to risk over time. By the age of retirement, the investment has relatively low volatility," Anderson ...

Real estate better than bonds: UBS

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
Investors starved of income should look to core real estate as an alternative to more expensive looking asset classes, according to UBS's Elisabeth Troni. In the face of continued investment uncertainty, the global real estate strategist says that there ...

Advisers leaving out ESG

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... companies which have a positive impact can help identify emerging growth trends such as water scarcity and security, and focus on occupational health and safety." Dalton Nicol Reid's Australian Equities high conviction portfolio has returned 12.1% a ...

Nothing new in objectives-based investing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
... often be dressed up as alpha, and there can be static asset allocation," said MacKenzie. "There can also be too great a focus on benchmarks and peers, which is not bad in itself, but the problems start when it constrains what you [a fund] does." MacKenzie ...