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Independent trustees fix wrong problem

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... from the University of Sydney and Christopher Angus from the McKell Institute - note that while independent trustees in theory should add a layer of superior governance performance to super funds, the surprise is that it's retail rather than industry ...

When Maslow's Theory and Marketing Collide

Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs." - Peter Drucker, father of modern management and marketing If marketing is so important to a business, why is it often the first thing cut when times are tough? Why chop one of two things ...

Funds passport 'doomed to fail' without tax reform

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
... according to BNP Paribas Security Services managing director Peter Baker. While the funds passport initiative is good in theory for Australian institutional investors, Baker said without a change in taxation rules, there will be no incentive for Asian ...

FoFA regulations paused, but legislation will go ahead

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
... become law immediately, in time for 1 July when certain exemptions to FoFA would have ended. The legislation would then in theory pass after 1 July, making the changes permanent. However, Finance Minister Matthias Cormann, who now has responsibility ...

Removal of super from awards top priority: FSC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... government has a responsibility to protect employees. "MySuper arrived in the first place to make sure that people who in theory are disengaged from super are looked after. You say then, well, everyone who's got a MySuper product is fine. But there's ...

Of horse trades and the January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2014
... literatures argue that this 'rule' has been proven to be a fallacy. What has been determined to be more accurate is the theory that the market's performance for the entire month of January predicts the direction of equities for the remaining 11 months ...

William Blair targets super fund investors with 'game theory'

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... firm's Macro Allocation Fund to institutional investors. The strategy is centred on the investment philosophy of 'game theory' - the idea that the political and economic motivations of market players create opportunities to capitalise on artificial asset ...

Super funds need low volatility shares for pension portfolios

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... volatility, income paying stocks, according to Investors Mutual investment director Anton Tagliaferro. Traditional investment theory dictates that as investors grow older, they should scale back their allocation to riskier assets such as shares and increase ...

Retirement objective is income not performance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013
... Reinforcing this is that most investment professionals look at portfolio construction through the eyes of Modern Portfolio Theory which seeks to maximise nominal returns and centres on equity when retirement investing should focus on building purchasing ...

Treasuries - safe but not so rewarding

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
... to get to zero, the annualised return declines to 6.4% and to only 4.2% in five. Could US 10-years get to zero? Yes, in theory. But as 'Timely Portfolios' pointed out, bond yields in Japan, with its "extended deflation in which stocks and real estate ...