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SMSFs keeping cash for better markets

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... uncertainty is reflective of a wider trend that saw more SMSFs adopt defensive investment strategies when making asset allocation changes over the past year. Growth in the number of SMSFs has also been subdued over the last two years, with about 25,000 ...

InvestSMART launches free robo-advice tool

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... compare available investment portfolios based on what InvestSMART managing director Ron Hodge described as "expert asset allocation on a given risk profile." Speaking to Financial Standard, Hodge stressed that the risk profiles and recommended portfolios ...

AZ NGA acquires $180m CBA advice firm

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... services over 2,000 clients and has $180 million in assets under management. It provides advice on investment and asset allocation, retirement planning and insurance. It has won the Victorian and Tasmanian Financial Wisdom practice of the year award ...

Instos overconfident on drawdown risks

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... that 86% of respondents have implemented downside protection strategies of some kind, with 53% choosing dynamic asset allocation. At the same time, 62% believe their portfolio is suitably diversified to withstand and 65% believe that diversification ...

TCorp becomes $70bn investment giant

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
NSW Treasury Corporation (TCorp) has become one of Australia's top 10 asset managers after State Super outsourced its funds management activities to the now $70 billion investment giant. This is the latest phase of an amalgamation process that started ...

Van Eck lists first A-shares ETF

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... development and opening-up of the China market, we expect A-shares to become an increasingly important part of asset allocation for global investors."

Investors concerned smart beta lacks transparency

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... obtained responses from 222 professional investors, including chief executives, chief investment officers, heads of asset allocation or heads of portfolio management from 27 European countries. Respondents manage a total of a,-3.3 trillion ($4.7 trillion) ...

Asset allocation is over, investors chase returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
Institutional investors' traditional emphasis on asset allocation has given way to a focus on returns, which has led to the "bondification" of equities, a global report found. The 2015 CREATE-Research report commissioned by Principal Global Investors ...

Cbus hires equities investment specialist

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... strong hire that will drive a range of new initiatives as well as further enhance our manager research and dynamic asset allocation processes."

Infrastructure returns beat equities, bonds

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... transport sub-sectors, which returned 16.1% and 21.5% respectively in the same period. Geographical infrastructure asset allocation is dominated by Europe and the UK (48%) and Australia (42%). New Zealand (3%) and North America (7%) make up the remainder ...