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Equities lead bull run in super savings: SelectingSuper

The latest performance figures from Rainmaker/SelectingSuper shows investors are continuing to enjoy strong returns, particularly in Australian and global equities. In the year ending February 2006, the Rainmaker/Selecting Super superannuation fund ...

Future Fund appointee's business cops downgrades from Fitch

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2006
Fitch Ratings has downgraded all funds formerly under the watch of Future Fund board appointee Trevor Rowe's company N M Rothschild and Sons (Australia) (NMRA) following last week's announcement NMRA had offloaded that part of the business to Invesco ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2006
The Australian share market is expected to open firmer as a positive lead from the US creates a bright sentiment for local investors. However, commodity prices took a breather overnight and that could lead to profit taking on the miners, weighing on ...

Education drives choice: Plum

MLC-owned Plum Financial Services has succeeded where most super funds have failed, spurring more than three-quarters of its 110,000-strong members to exercise choice. The Melbourne-based company is a corporate superannuation specialist with a twist. ...

Finsuper jumps aboard the STA-ARF train

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2006
On 30 June Finsuper will merge with STA, which by then will have evolved into the massive STA-ARF merged entity. After the boards of both organisations completed due diligence, Finsuper decided the merger was the right move for its members. The merger ...

Perennial wins AUSfund mandate

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2006
Perennial Growth Management has been awarded an Australian equities mandate by AUSfund. David Hayne, chief executive of AUSfund, the eligible roll-over fund for industry super plans, said the appointment of Perennial Growth Management was an attempt ...

UBS goes for global equity returns

UBS Wealth Management believes going global is the way forward for equity investments, and so they have launched a new diversified global equity fund. UBS said that world markets are currently experiencing a significant uptrend on the back of robest ...

SRI next gen - funds that only invest in companies run by women

If Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) needs ideas, they need look no further than the $A50 million Women's Equity Fund (WEF) in the US. WEF invests only in companies that seek to increase leadership opportunities for women employees, or who agree ...

Commonwealth banks on customer service and IT

The Commonwealth Bank has unveiled a four-pronged corporate strategy that includes merging two key units, improving IT and offering flexible employment in a bid to remain one of the country's leading banks. Commonwealth's chief executive officer, Ralph ...

PSS and CSS boards to merge

Fund consolidation pressures apply in the public sector too, and so the trustee boards that drive Australia's two commonwealth public sector super funds, PSS and CSS, are to merge. The proposed new structure will be called the Australian Reward Investment ...