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BNP turns to games for education

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... involves participants taking on a role as a dog that 'digs up' lost super while chasing cats and avoiding wombats. The more super the player finds, the higher the score.

More super to move into daily pricing

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
In the future, more super funds will behave like fund managers, giving members a chance to see how much their savings are worth on a daily basis - a radical departure from today's convention of monthly, quarterly and yearly valuations. The debate surrounding ...

Consultants review pay

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
Asset consultants are calling for a re-evaluation of the current remuneration system as more super funds demand more tailored services, particularly on advice in alternative assets. Traditionally, consultants have been rewarded based on a dollar value ...

Cut super tax, boost co-contribution

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
... the Prime Minister's five-point plan to address inflation by encouraging private and national savings, but added that more super contributions were needed to combat flagging savings levels. "The average superannuation cost is still woefully behind on ...

Enhanced index tips over $10bn

... attracted more than $10 billion in funds under management, clocking more than a billion each year since launch, as more super funds shift their money from 'vanilla' index portfolios to those with 'alpha' returns. Global Index Plus (GIP) uses an 'active ...

Macq splits the wrap

... super sooner than the wife, so splitting the wife's benefit across to the husband in this way may give them access to more super sooner." Super splitting remains an important savings strategy because of the legislative risks. For example, the Government ...

Absolute returns not high risk

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
... for doing the research properly," said MacDonald. Andrew Keevers, associate director of research at Rainmaker said more super funds are increasing their weightings to absolute returns but inconsistency in how they describe their risk weightings to researchers ...

QSuper ploughs $2b into derivatives and swaps

... in the last 12 months," he said. CFS manages a total $1.7 billion in inflation-linked bond assets and Bird expects more super funds to invest a greater allocation of their portfolio in the sector. He explained that super funds would usually invest in ...

More super incentives from the Treasurer

Four months after the Federal Government announced sweeping changes to the country's superannuation system, the Treasurer Peter Costello is back in the limelight offering even more incentives for people to boost their super savings. Yes, both the reasonable ...

Super funds to inject $1.5bn more into Aussie hedge funds

... which account for 50 per cent of current allocations will fall in the next two to five years to about 30 per cent as more super funds start using single strategy funds. But Evans hastened to point out that alongside this trend, there is anecdotal evidence ...