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EQT completes ANZ Trustees acquisition

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
Equity Trustees (EQT) has completed the acquisition of ANZ Trustees for $150 million, which has boosted ET's total funds under management to $40 billion. As part of the agreement, EQT and ANZ have entered into a strategic relationship for five years ...

FEATURE: In search of the missing asset class

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... overseas peers. A 2012 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) survey found that large Australian pension funds allocated little more than 10% to the asset class. That compares to a global average of just over 50%. Those figures ...

Citi develops white label banking for industry funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
Citi is offering to white label its retail banking services for industry super funds as a way of stemming the outflow to retail funds and self-managed super funds (SMSFs), Financial Standard can reveal. In what could prove a lifeline to industry funds ...

Nikko AM to launch Singapore's first Chinese onshore bond fund

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... generally strong interest in bonds in Singapore, there are limited RQFII allocations available to offshore investors. Such bond funds will provide investors with the opportunity to participate in China's growth and add diversification to their portfo ...

YBR Smarter Money returns 5.0% over June quarter

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... risk-adjusted Sharpe Ratio has been a very high 4.5 times since its inception several years ago, which is well above competing funds," he added.

TWU defends mandatory TWU Super contributions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... secretary Michael Caine rejected the notion that mandating employer contributions to TWU Super was a violation of the choice of funds legislation. "We very much believe that is an appropriate exercising of choice," he said. "We believe they have the ...

Sunsuper prepares for end of super in awards

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
Industry super funds should ready themselves for the removal of superannuation from the modern awards system, according to Sunsuper chief executive Scott Hartley. Six months into his role at the fund, the former NAB exec told Financial Standard he thought ...

ASFA calls for lifetime contribution caps

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has called for lifetime cap to non-concessional superannuation contributions for those with balances over $2.5 million. The recommendation is published in a report which analyses the impact ...

GARS added to BT Wrap platform

HARRY PAGE, MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... markets, with each one selected for its return potential on a three-year horizon. GARS has been one of the best-selling managed funds of any type in the US and UK markets in recent years and Standard Life Investments' investment director of wholesale ...

Retail fund members most unsatisfied: Roy Morgan

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
Retail funds continue to underperform industry funds when it comes to member satisfaction, but the gap is closing, according to the latest Roy Morgan research. The research found that 55.8% of industry fund members were satisfied with their fund's financial ...