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Budget presents huge opportunity for wealth industry

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
... services industry as product and service providers devise ways to help fund people those additional years, according to Rainmaker Information director of research Alex Dunnin. "When you change the pension age to 70 - admittedly in two decades time - ...

Voting opens for the 2014 MAX Awards

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
Voting is now open for the MAX Awards, which are the refreshed and rebranded Rainmaker Sales and Marketing Excellence Awards. This year, as part of the rebrand, there are new categories including Best Social Media Campaign, Best Integrated Campaign ...

Prime Super will not appoint HIP directors to board

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014

Zurich moves on from group insurance

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... insurance represents a tiny part of the business and added that the company is a very small player in the group sector. Rainmaker data shows that Zurich was not serving any of the 200 largest Australia super funds. "We entered the local group life market ...

Blue Sky launches first listed investment company

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... alternatives has almost tripled from 5% in 1997 to 14% in 2013, and is forecast to rise to nearly 20% by 2033 according to a Rainmaker report from December 2013. With a low correlation to traditional asset classes such as listed equities and bonds, Blue ...

Managed accounts take-up jump 63%: survey

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
Rainmaker's 2013 survey of adviser groups found that 26 adviser groups have reported being associated with a managed account, up 63% from the 16 who reported a similar association in 2008. While this may be considered a relatively small number, the ...

OneVue pitches Managed Accounts to industry funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014
... billion in Australia today it's hard to deny the impact it's having on the wider superannuation community. Research from Rainmaker reveals that 30% of super funds now offer Member Direct Investment options which are low cost quasi-platform solutions ...

Future Fund and super returns on par

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... that it is opening up a big gap over CPI+4.5% performance benchmark. Preliminary super fund performance results from Rainmaker's March 2014 SelectingSuper survey shows super fund workplace default investment options to be returning 8.4% pa, indicating ...

The latest Financial Standard issue available on the iPad app.

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2014
... section. For investment professionals, the research tables on super funds and managed funds performance data - supplied by Rainmaker Information and publishers in the print edition - are also on iPadA(C). Get stories like this delivered to your email ...

Portfolio disclosure's unintended consequences

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2014
... disclose their intentions about future transactions. Portfolio disclosure around MySuper investments, a segment that Rainmaker expects will be worth an estimated $600 billion in 2017 and which is set to become the central core of the workplace super ...