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Super mergers drive new trends in asset consulting

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... players are future-proofing their business through bigger investment teams and sharpened investment models. Last year Rainmaker published research showing that five years ago most major super funds used a single asset consultant. Today, for the large ...

Capital at risk in emerging markets

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... be linear... That's a fundamental fallacy that plagues a lot of emerging market investments," he said. According to Rainmaker research emerging market equity returns for wholesale managed funds averaged 7.62 per cent in the year to February with top ...

AXA releases new North

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... platform, launched in 2007, with the platform's funds under management climbing 34 per cent last year to $1.64 billion. Rainmaker reported that once the AMP/AXA acquisition is completed, the new conglomerate will climb into third place of the platform ...

SMSFs avg balances hit $1m

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
New research from Rainmaker into self-managed super funds confirms that much of what we think we know about the sector is still driven by myths. An analysis the researcher conducted into SMSF figures available from the Australian Taxation Office and ...

Russell moves into industry fund admin

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... clients are currently dominated by Australian Administration Services and Superpartners. According to research house Rainmaker, Russell's clients are mainly corporates including super funds from Qantas, Westpac, BHP Billiton and BlueScope Steel. Mark ...

FSS and Health Super merger on track

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... for having the lowest cost super fund and pension fund, including the Money Magazine Best of the Best award and the Rainmaker SelectingSuper Retirement Fund of the Year - Value Choice. Dwyer also said the merger would provide opportunity scale to help ...

Platforms bounce back after GFC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... as the GFC fallout was, it only set back Australia's wealth creation plans by two years. The figures are contained in Rainmaker's latest Advantage report that details how platforms have now recovered from the meltdown following their 6.5 per cent growth ...

Last call for your say on law change

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... encouraging Australian investment managers to develop their own global expertise would be a potentially bigger opportunity. Rainmaker research reveals only one-third of global investments owned by Australian investors is managed by domestically-based ...

BTIM adds portfolio manager

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... working at Challenger, Davey was a ratings analyst at S&P. He has also worked for Citibank and Ernst & Young. According to Rainmaker, BTIM had $3.6 billion of domestic fixed interest funds and $1.1 billion of international fixed interest funds under ...

Standard Life hires top Macq director

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... billion ($291.2 billion) in assets under administration as of the end of June, 2010, it says on its website. According to Rainmaker research, it had $130.9 million in domestically sourced funds under management as of the end of December.