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Super funds on the mend: SelectingSuper

Super funds have recovered so much ground in the nine months to end September that they could soon be back in the black for the first time in 18 months, the SelectingSuper survey found. The survey found that the average 12-month loss, after all fees ...

Unregistered MIS operator arrested

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
The former director of Fuelbanc Australia and operator of an unregistered managed investment scheme, Stephen McDougall, was arrested yesterday after the court charged him with nine counts of dishonest use of his position as an officer of the company. ...

High fees barrier to infrastructure mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
Infrastructure managers face tough barriers to mandates from institutional investors if they do not review their high fee models, argues Watson Wyatt. A new research paper from Watson Wyatt, titled Improving Fees in Infrastructure, said the firm favours ...

FBI hunts down bank fraudsters

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
The US has teamed up with Egypt in one of the largest crackdowns on cyber fraud - resulting in 100 people linked to an international "phishing" operation charged for trying to defraud American banks. According to a press statement from the Federal Bureau ...

More room to slash super fees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
Admin and investment fees charged by major Australian super funds are on par, if not better, than those charged by similar funds in the US, the UK and Japan - but more can be done to lower overall costs to the average fund member, a global study found. ...

Walter Scott tops S&P review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
Walter Scott earns the top gong in the latest S&P review on the international equities growth funds sector. S&P Fund Services yesterday released the first ratings in its international equities sector review, issuing 13 fund ratings in the growth peer ...

Expect the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
Caution removes caution. Just as the G-20 announced their caution in removing the fiscal and monetary crutch until the global economy is walking on its own, the word 'cautiously' in the 'cautiously optimistic' is fast disappearing in many an investment ...

Statewide appoints new chief

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2009
The $1.7 billion Statewide Superannuation Trust has appointed former Super SA general manager John O'Flaherty as its new chief executive. O'Flaherty will take up the role in October, 2009. He replaces Frances Magill, the long-standing chief executive ...

Magellan hires Melbourne account manager

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
Magellan Asset Management has appointed Allan Evans to a key account manager role based in Melbourne in the firm's first appointment out of Sydney. Evans has over 20 years of financial services experience, with his career traversing superannuation ...

Day of silence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
Big yawn! That's what Wall Street and European markets did overnight. Flat, flat, flat. Perhaps they took a one-day of silence to show respect for US Senator Edward Kennedy. Senator Ted passed away yesterday, aged 77. Or maybe they're just taking a ...