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SuperAlphaFund closes shop in Australia

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
... for its local arm after discovering that the name "superfund" is an ubiquitous term in Australia, referring to retirement funds in general.

Retirement savings only last a few years

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
Australians' retirement expectations are out of sync with their savings - with new research showing that retirement funds only last a few years before they dry up. The 24th AMP.NATSEM Income and Wealth Report noted that Australians are expected to spend ...

ISN to APRA: get on with it

... default options, are master trusts. Keevers said Rainmaker monitors returns each month for more than 200 super and retirement funds and several thousand investment options, freely posting top fifty league tables for each major asset sector over one ...

SIPPs back their expertise

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... are similar to a self managed super fund (SMSF) where investors are in control of the asset allocation of their retirement funds. "Throughout the market turmoil of the past year we have consistently seen our more knowledgeable clients take an 'instividual' ...

Future still belongs to super

... unintended or adverse consequences," noted Deloitte. According to Rainmaker, another major shift is the role of retirement funds, which they project will increase from 24 per cent of the market today to 36 per cent within a decade.

A centre for managed futures

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
... for its local arm after discovering that the name "superfund" is an ubiquitous term in Australia, referring to retirement funds in general. SuperAlphaFund managing director Matthias Gaertner said the move follows a similar strategy overseas where all ...

AMP Banking taps Cuscal ATM network

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
... Super rules has made it beneficial for retirees to keep their money within super, prompting several super and retirement funds to launch their own account-based pension products. This has prompted Cuscal, which has traditionally serviced credit unions ...

Rainmaker coverage tops 25,000 options

... Andrew Keevers, Rainmaker associate director of research, said the CompareOnline service now spans 535 super and retirement funds, including nearly 300 master trust and more than 150 industry fund products and divisions. "Following on from significant ...

Right on target: Vanguard

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
... portfolios of more than 1.24 million people with 401(k) plans, the US equivalent to Australian's superannuation or retirement funds. The report found that those who invested in target-date funds, or funds that automatically adjusts equity allocation ...

Chile not so hot on fixed income

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... said. CPAA pointed out that since the middle of last year, when the sub-prime crisis started to unravel, Chile's retirement funds have already adopted defensive strategies. They invested more in Chile and less overseas, shifted more cash into fixed income ...