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Consultant warns super funds on alternative rush

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... think they want something different to equities and scramble around for them," said Condon, speaking at the 17th annual Rainmaker Sales & Marketing Symposium. "The purveyors of these things aren't silly and realise they can package things up to make ...

Super funds talk debt ructions and increasing pensions

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... woes and retired member numbers were hot topics for superannuation fund chief investment officers at the 17th Annual Rainmaker Sales and Marketing Symposium yesterday. During lively discussions at the institutional investor round table session, Megan ...

SMSF trustees are looking for mentors

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... models and become mentors to succeed in the self-managed superannuation market, an industry expert told the 17th Annual Rainmaker Sales and Marketing Symposium yesterday. Andrea Slattery, chief executive of the Self Managed Super Fund Professionals' ...

Rainmaker reveals 2011 Sales & Marketing Excellence Awards

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
Challenger emerged as the biggest winner from the 2011 Rainmaker Sales & Marketing Excellence Awards Dinner last night, picking up three awards, while PIMCO, Legg Mason and AustralianSuper each scooped two. The awards dinner, compared by ABC newsreader ...

REST focused on long term after posting healthy returns

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... super grow with REST, rather than changing funds based on year-to-year performance," said Hill. Recent data released by Rainmaker Research predicted an average superannuation balanced fund return of around 8% for the year. REST has 1.9 million member ...

HOSTPLUS serves up online engagement

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... one of Australia's leading restaurants after generating high levels of member engagement with its debut outing, the Rainmaker Sales and Marketing Symposium heard today. The Cook for Your Career (C4YC) campaign, a national cooking competition, which the ...

SMSF industry responsibility

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... funds, it's the looming self-managed super funds dilemma that needs attention, according to a speaker at the 17th Annual Rainmaker Sales and Marketing Symposium today. Marianne Perkovic, general manager at Colonial First State spoke to delegates this ...

Retail funds want more super access

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... retail superannuation product with $19.7 billion in funds under management and 870,000 members according to data from Rainmaker Information. But David Whiteley, chief executive of the Industry Super Network said when retail funds talked of leveling the ...

New mandate flows increasing but more cash lies in wait

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... in the year to March recovering to normal levels from the shock of the global financial crisis, latest research from Rainmaker Information shows. The latest edition of Rainmaker's Mandate Chaser has revealed the number of mandates appointed has increased ...

Telstra Super majority returns above 10%

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... Conservative (8.56%), and Fixed Interest (6.20%) and Cash (4.24%). The results looked similar to recent data released by Rainmaker Research, which predicted an average superannuation balanced fund return of around 8% for the year. Starting on July 1 ...