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Treasuries - safe but not so rewarding

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
This was to be the year of the Great Rotation. The period when the bond market waves the white flag and give up the fight for investor dollars to the market for equities. That's until Cyprus. It has to come up with a,-5.8 billion (by taxing bank deposits ...

Product dashboards critical to MySuper

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
... structural consequences." Portfolio holdings disclosure, SuperStream, SuperSeeker, account consolidation and the selection of default funds in awards are some of the most pressing issues that need to be addressed in order to better define MySuper.

Only 13 MySuper products so far authorised

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
... attempt to unwind MySuper albeit it has suggested it will relax the rules around nomination of funds being appointed as default funds in industrial awards. Retail funds being slow to engage on MySuper may also reflect their more intense focus on launching ...

Age pension is retirees' main income source

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
... limited exposure to equities and in superannuation assets." Wood reminded trustees that their new obligations under MySuper default option are "to manage the assets of the trust on behalf of beneficiaries in their best interest, but trustees are also ...

PASF receives MySuper approval

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
... contrasts with other funds that turn their balanced options into MySuper. "Our MySuper offering will be similar to our current default offer, Growth investment option, which remains as a low-cost and highly competitive product, suited to the members ...

AvSuper gets MySuper approval

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
... members a MySuper option wich includes a single investment option, a standard of fees that meet legislated requirements and default levels of death and disability insurance. "As predicted, AvSuper was able to meet the new requirements with minimal changes," ...

Media Super gets MySuper approval

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... pleased to advise that Media Super has received authorisation to offer a MySuper product" he said. "Media Super's existing default investment, the Balanced option, already contains many of the low cost attributes required of MySuper and as such we submitted ...

Strong returns help UniSuper stave off benefit review

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... have seen the ratios jump to 94% and 105% respectively as at 1 February 2013. According to SelectingSuper, UniSuper's default investment option posted net returns of 14.5% for the 12 months to end January 2013 placing it just inside the top 10 from 83 ...

Local appetite for hedge funds outstrips other markets

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... million in the coming days. It is free to invest right across the capital structure of companies equity, debt, credit default swaps and options. For more family office investing news and research, go to www.fsprivatewealth.com.au.

Funds delivering 12.5% for past 12 months

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
Super fund returns continued their recovery during January 2013 as the SelectingSuper Workplace default option index climbed again to now be on a 34-month high of 12.5%. This is a 12 percentage point jump in seven months. As in June last year, returns ...