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Member direct investment needs work

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
Superannuation fund members should leave their money in a highly diversified option and come back when they retire according to an industry fund chief investment officer. Addressing a member direct investment options forum at an Australian Institute ...

Highest paid industry CEOs revealed

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
Australia's most handsomely paid chief executives received eight figure salaries in 2014, the latest research from the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) revealed. The ACSI 'CEO Pay in ASX 200 Companies' report A looked at the earnings ...

Cash is king at the Future Fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... benchmark target return of 7.1% per annum. Total funds under management by the board of Guardians are $128.5 billion, a figure that includes the assets of the Future Fund, Nation-building Funds and DisabilityCare Australia Fund. The Board of Guardians ...

The horse still refuses to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
The tsunami that has swept the financial market world last week right through to Monday has left and gone... and once more, the sun shines and the sky's blue. This means that the Fed can go ahead and lift, right Virginia? More so after last night's ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... complex and affects its currency, equities and lending markets. "It's a new market, it's a new system and they need to figure out how to work with it. Hiccups like what we've had over the last weeks show that it's difficult to control what happens when ...

Hedge funds face brain drain

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... thinks the Australian family office sector is worth about $70 billion but I've spoken to large family offices who say that figure barely scratches the surface." Stanford said that family offices are a natural home for hedge funds: "Family offices don't ...

H&R Block launches SMSF set-up service

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... third of the $1.7 trillion invested in Australian superannuation is now controlled by self-managed super funds and that figure increases every day. Increasingly, people look at the poor returns delivered by conventional super funds and they take the ...

PROFILE: SSGA head of Investment Solutions Group Mark Wills

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... multiple times a month there will be something from Econ 301 that I will remember; which is good. I think it takes you time to figure out how to use what you learnt." Wills is part of a 73-person global team that helps institutional investors with their ...

Super outstrips other channels in disability risk profits

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
The profitability of disability income insurance within superannuation is outstripping comparable insurance products sold directly. The latest quarterly statistics from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) show that both the super and ...

Australians need another $130,000 for retirement: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
... Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) released its latest retirement standard. However the updated ASFA figure suggests Australian's will need to increase their super balances by up to $130,000 for a comfortable retirement, now setting ...