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Super funds argue against unfair fee rules

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... draft laws, some funds might encourage members with big balances to swap into choice investment options, rather than the default MySuper product. Vamos said at least one of its member superannuation funds had called its members with big balances and ...

2013 a turning point for world economy: Clime

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... lending to the Bundesbank, and in the periphery where yields on 10-year notes had climbed into double figures on fears of a default. Clime says that trade figures in the US have also improved and are expected to continue to do so over the next 12 to ...

APRA's SMSF loan warning berated

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2013
... the fears as overly 'conservative'. "While it is obviously very early days we are not aware of any significant level of default and it appears likely - if existing lending policies are maintained - that APRA's assessment of 'potentially higher loss profile' ...

US credit rating threatened, buy US bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... threat. US 10-year bond yields fell from 1.86% before 1.82%. Yes, yes, yo. You've heard all about it before. America cannot default because it borrows in its own currency - it can just print lots of it to repay their debt - and that the US dollar is ...

VicSuper adopts fresh approach to sovereign exposure

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... approach to sovereign exposure will go a long way towards assuaging our medium term concerns about the concentration and default risks in the government bond market."

Qsuper to champion tailored options

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... managing individual expectations," Vamos said. Like all funds, Qsuper found it very hard to engage the members in its default option, where most have their retirement savings invested, said Qsuper chief investment officer Brad Holzberger. Holzberger ...

Better 2013 outlook risks complacency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... world. That very day of the same month, Fitch Managing Director Edward Parker went on record saying that expects Greece to default soon because it would be unable to make good on a March 20 a,-14.5 bond payment. Implicit in these are speculations that ...

Fewer managers drive lower fees at legalsuper

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013
... use that to their advantage, said Proebstl. A six basis point cut has been delivered to members invested in legalsuper's default investment option (Growth), where 80% of the funds 40, 000 members have parked some of their retirement savings, legalsuper ...

PAS Lodges MySuper application

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013
... members, said chairman Frank Gullone. MySuper funds are low-cost and simple superannuation products that replace existing default funds. The reform will come into effect from 1 July this year.

Market Wrap - AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012
... somewhat as the European Union also cleared long-delayed bailout funds needed to avert a potentially disastrous Greek debt default. London's FTSE 100 index of top companies closed 0.27 per cent lower at 5,929.61 points, Frankfurt's DAX 30 index fell ...