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Super mums must focus on retirement savings

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... behaviours of Australian mums when it comes to superannuation. "The Super Mum Index affirms how the common pressure among Aussie women with children to be able to "do it all" impacts on how often and how seriously they are able to consider their financial ...

Aussie banks overpriced, undercapitalised: Perpetual

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
Australian financials are overpriced and undercapitalised relative to their global counterparts, Perpetual Investments global equities portfolio manager Garry Laurence said. "We feel much more comfortable investing in more attractively valued financials ...

Falling rates turn Aussie bonds into "a poor choice"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
Currency risk makes Australian government bonds "a relatively poor choice" for international investors despite their stellar AAA rating, according to Nikko Asset Management head of fixed income in Australia James Alexander. Alexander explained that ...

Bond bears out of hibernation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... 2.6% this year to date. However, returns have come down from the 8.6% high recorded in early Feb. Year-to-date returns for Aussie tenners could also turn negative should the bond market sell-off continue. And that's the 64 million dollar question? Would ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... equities analyst Julia Lee said. "Once again we are seeing heavy losses among the banks and what's driving that is where the Aussie dollar is and interest rate expectations," she said. "The market had priced in an 80 per cent chance of a rate cut next ...

Australians wary of new investments: Legg Mason

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
Australian investors are coy about putting their money to work both overseas and locally according to global asset manager Legg Mason. Although weighted averages suggest investor confidence in Australia is high, it appears investors in the lucky country ...

Overseas investors flocking to Australian bonds

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
BlackRock is seeing massive flows from Japanese clients into Aussie dollar bond funds as a result of quantitative easing in the Asian country. Investment strategist and head of fixed income, Steve Miller, told a briefing recently the flows in to Aussie ...

Stone and Chalk names chief executive

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... to help foster the fintech start-up community, to help teams of entrepreneurs accelerate growth and ultimately to help Aussie fintech start-ups go global." Stone and Chalk chair, Craig Dunn, said since the company launched last month "there has been ...

New Zealand dollar closes in on Aussie

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
The New Zealand dollar has almost reached parity with the Australian dollar amid rate cut expectations. The Kiwi is predicted to past the A-dollar for the first time since 1974, when government controls over rates were dropped. New Zealand's economy ...

Managers to battle for super pool offshore

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... self-managed super funds (SMSFs) diversification is essential: "A lot of those portfolios are too heavy weighted in cash and Aussie equities and that's worked very well over last years, but we know it's not future proof. They need to start diversifying ...