Investments
Eriksen Master Trust survey
Tuesday 27th of July 1999
Falling interest rates have reduced the returns for balanced and conservative funds in the three months to June 30. New Zealand equities funds performed well. With inflation for the year -0.4 per cent funds performed well with an 8 per cent real rate of return on average. This was also over 4 per cent pa better than the cash rate. The Global Retirement Trust which is a multi-employer master t...
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