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Insurers upping risk to combat low yields

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... returns. CIOs plan to increase allocations to asset classes that can offer higher total return potential, an illiquidity premium, and protection against rising rates and inflation. They plan to decrease allocations to cash, short-term instruments, and ...

CFSGAM wins VicSuper infra mandate

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014
... agricultural investments. VicSuper chief investment officer Oscar Fabian said that, while the fund likes the illiquidity premium of unlisted infrastructure, the growing interest in the asset class from institutional investors is making it a "crowded ...

Infrastructure key in battle against SMSF exodus

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013
... funds can get an advantage over self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) by using their scale to exploit the "illiquidity premium" that exists in unlisted markets such as infrastructure, according to Brett Himbury, chief executive of IFM Investors. ...

Annuities boost Challenger growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
... longer-tenor product delivers extended revenue streams, enables investment in longer dated assets which earn an illiquidity premium and is more efficient to distribute and administer," Benari said. He referred to the strong sales of Liquid Lifetime and ...

Trustees call to scrap MySuper

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
... recommended that we design for them an investment option that virtually ignores the prospect of any of the illiquidity premium that you can get from a variety of asset classes." Galbally took a back to basics approach behind his argument to oppose MySuper ...

Gloves off ahead of APRA report

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
... frothy. We had around three per cent in infrastructure but had very little in direct assets and decided that the illiquidity premium just wasn't evident in those markets," he said. But that investment strategy worked against the firm's advantage after ...

Unlisted assets poised for higher illiquidity premiums

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
... the upside, the return of LPT multiples to modest levels will lead to unlisted property enjoying a better 'illiquidity premium' - the extra return investors should get for not being able to sell or liquidate the investment as easily as they would using ...
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