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BT offers wholesale funds to retail platform clients

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
BT Financial Group has made a new series of over 30 of its wholesale funds available only to retail investors on the company's platforms. The Wholesale Plus Funds series includes some of the best-rated and most popular wholesale funds in all the major ...

Bond experts reiterate need for flexible duration strategy

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... to move quickly with no benchmark orientation," Hirschmann said, adding that the take-up of flexible, unconstrained bond funds had been slower in Australia than in other parts of the world. GAM investment manager Daniel Sheard, who also runs an unconstrained ...

Scale not what it used to be

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... awards are on again next week in Melbourne and an analysis of the shortlisted finalists shows that boutique and mid-sized funds make up 14 of the award contenders. Boutique and mid sized funds making the shortlist are Intrust, Club Plus, Catholic Super ...

Retail MySuper transition too slow: ISA

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... that MySuper account balances represent only 44% of the estimated total of default option account balances in workplace funds operated by retail wealth management groups. The corresponding MySuper conversion ratio for not-for-profit funds already stands ...

ING low-fee super hits $1bn mark

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
ING DIRECT Living Super has reached the $1 billion funds under management milestone two years after entering the Australian market. Launched in 2012 as a direct-to-customer offering, Living Super's balanced option charges members no administration or ...

Prime Super appoints fourth independent director

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... experience will be invaluable as we look to expand further into the health and aged care industries." Unlike most industry super funds, Prime Super has a majority of independent directors, with only one union (Australian Workers' Union) and one employer ...

QSuper number one for member satisfaction

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
... State Super, HESTA, HOSTPLUS, MLC, OnePath, REST, Sunsuper, in addition to an amalgamated analysis of self-managed super funds. QSuper achieved the highest score of any brand across all key attributes, including overall value, investment performance ...

Former QIC exec appointed OneVue COO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
... general meeting, at which it reported record inflows for the September quarter of $111.6 million. It also reported total funds under administration for its retail platform of $2.679 billion, more than half of which came from self-managed superannuation ...

ETFs jump 44 pct to $13.6bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) climbed 44% in the year end October 2014 to reach $13.6 billion, reports figures just released by the ASX. But while the money managed in ETFs is surging the number of ETF products is relatively stable with just an extra ...

Spring FG set to launch IPO

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
... has assets under advice in excess of $330 million, a mortgage book of more than $120 million and 300 self-managed super funds (SMSFs) under administration. Spring FG manager director Keith Cullen said that the offer will be available to members of the ...