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Global equities tease income opportunity

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2016
... once only available to institutional investors, are now easily accessible using cost-effective ETF products as building blocks of an income portfolio. This a view presented by SPDR ETFs in a white paper released by State Street Global Advisors Australia ...

iShares Core launches in Australia

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... (AUD Hedged) ETF (IHCB). iShares Core is designed to provide financial advisers and investors with a range of building blocks to create a long term portfolios. The range can be complemented with other iShares ETFs that address specific investment needs ...

ASX partners with US tech firm for new trade platform

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016
... experience significantly faster settlement of equity transactions - potentially in near real-time." The system works by filling "blocks" with a group of recent transactions which are then added to the "chain" in a permanent database, creating a new block ...

Midwinter makes hire ahead of product launch

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015
... Advice Framework coming to completion, we are working closely with our clients to ensure that they are first out of the blocks when it comes to implementing their digital transformation," Midwinter managing director Julian Plummer said.

SMSFs and infrastructure a good investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... meet Australia's forthcoming infrastructure needs, the SMSF Association said it would be "opportune" to remove any road blocks for SMSF investment. SMSF Association chief executive Andrea Slattery said although infrastructure is largely attractive to ...

Retirees should expand asset classes

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... officer, Reece Birtles, said older Australians and their financial advisers need to reconsider the traditional building blocks of retirement portfolios. "Retirees rarely take into account the income risk inherent in investing in a single asset class," ...

FSU secretary and executive reach impasse

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... Wednesday, Jordan published an open letter on the FSU website and suggested that in the past 13 months there had been several blocks to proposed changes. "The efforts have been deliberately undermined by a series of extraordinary actions designed to ...

Retiring 'comfortably may require 3 income building blocks: Legg Mason

PROMOTED BY LEGG MASON  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
Advisers may have to recalibrate 'safe' retirement income portfolios in a world of low interest rates - and that may mean blending equity, real and fixed income. That's because when you consider the five-year rate on a typical annuity or term deposit ...

CFS reveals retirement income strategy

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... Rubinzstein explained. CFS general manager of product and investments Peter Chun noted that "advisers want different building blocks and toolkits so they can overlay advice. "We will unbundle these very complex products and create different solutions ...

BetaShares funds now available on AMP platforms

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2015
... these four funds on the AMP platforms demonstrates growing adviser demand for exchange traded products as key building blocks in the construction of a robust portfolio, as well as increasing comfort with the product structure from platform Superannuation ...