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FUM breaks through $1.4 tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
Assets managed by investment managers has broken through the $1.4 trillion barrier again after climbing 12.8 per cent in 2009 and returning to where it was 18 months ago, according to new research from Rainmaker. "This is the third consecutive quarter ...

Senate showdown looms on Clearing House legislation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2010
Coalition calls for major amendments to the Government's legislation to authorise the Medicare monopoly on Approved Superannuation Clearing Houses is setting up another Senate showdown."The Coalition needs to indicate today that they will allow this ...

Verity and newfocus unveil marketing benchmarking study

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
Verity Financial Marketing and newfocus Research have launched a breakthrough study that will attempt to measure effectiveness of super fund marketing campaigns. The research has been designed by Bruce Stafford, former marketing manager at QIC and Hesta ...

Women make up 30 pc of trustees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
Days after Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young called for 40 per cent of board directors of Australia's Top 200 ASX listed companies to be women, research by Rainmaker released today on International Women's Day confirmed that not even not-for-profit ...

Super has no competition, no innovation: ISN

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
Market failure in superannuation is so profound that the most innovative player is the regulator, said David Whiteley, chief executive of the Industry Super Network. "What you expect to see in competitive markets is innovation. But in super you don't ...

Funds want better EMs access

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
Growing appetite for emerging market investment is pushing super funds to think differently about how to gain access to the sector, said Bruce Murphy, managing director BNY Mellon Asset Management in Australia. International equities now make up 23 ...

Planners can fix their poor public image

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
Planners have only themselves to blame for their poor public image but this creates the opportunity to turn things around if they focus on how they contribute to the community and deliver a consistent public message. Richard Klipin, chief executive ...

Positive spin to bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
Analyse this! US home sales tumble big time as Wall Street rises. Yes Virginia, the past two days of trading activity on The Street exemplifies the equity market's wild and wacky psychology -- that's if you're watching the daily ups and downs. Yesterday ...

Stafford launches Verity

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
Financial services specialist strategic brand marketer Bruce Stafford has launched his own consultancy following his departure from QIC and several years helping to drive HESTA's expansion. His new consultancy, Verity Financial Marketing, will focus ...

Contribs rate during GFC still 23 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
Super contributions contracted only 5 per cent during the 2008-09 global financial crisis to $112 billion, leaving total contributions still at a high 23 per cent of total national wages or two-and-a-half times the SG rate, according to latest figures ...