ASSET ALLOCATION

Superannuation

The traditional superannuation balanced fund, with its 70/30 allocation to growth and defensive assets, is limiting investors and failing to deliver appropriate investmen...

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Editorial

Asset allocation is typically sold as a simple stocks-versus-bonds split, but there is much more to it than that if you want an effective result. Bhanu Singh points to a ...

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Financial planning

The move by governments and corporates to exit the pension business, combined with the first waves of baby boomers reaching retirement, has shifted a higher level of risk...

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Editorial

As advisers become increasingly time-poor, multi-manager funds seem to have emerged as an ‘all-in-one’ solution they need for their clients. But as Benjamin Levy reports,...

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Funds management

PIMCO’s win in the Money Management/Lonsec Fund Manager of Year Awards for the Fixed Interest category marks the third year in a row that its EQT Wholesale Global Bond Fu...

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Superannuation

Self-managed super fund trustees have shied away from cash due to falling interest rates but stayed close to defensive and low-risk assets, shifting funds into fixed inte...

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Editorial

Multi-manager funds deserve to be reconsidered by advisers and their clients, particularly because many managers have changed their approach to make the option more attra...

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Editorial

With yields at record lows and negative returns on bonds being an absolute certainty, is there really a point to investing in fixed interest? Aman Ramrakha from CBA Wealt...

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People & Products

Former S&P director of fund services Jeff Mitchell has joined Australian Unity Personal Financial Services as head of investment research....

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Financial planning

New survey suggests non-aligned financial planners are the primary source of advice for super fund members....

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Superannuation

Concern that SMSF trustees do not have sufficient knowledge to diversify their portfolios....

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Financial planning

In order to meet clients’ changing demands, financial planners need to review their standard practices – especially with regards to return projections, writes Fiducian’s ...

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Superannuation

Petr Kocourek from CFS Global Asset Management explains how target benefit plans tackle the issues faced by defined benefit schemes and defined contribution systems in pr...

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Financial planning

MLC has launched a consulting service for ultra-high net worth and small institutional investors called Portfolio Solutions, with Michael Karagianis to head the team....

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Financial planning

Some planners are worried that PI requirements risk compromising best interest allocations....

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