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SelectingSuper 2012 awards

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2012
The 2012 SelectingSuper awards are being held in Melbourne's MCG members Dining Room on Thursday 8 November, with 16 awards on offer. They range from the Workplace, Personal and Retirement Products of the Year in multiple categories, to Self Managed ...

Super returns nudge GFC barrier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
... five years, super funds are finally in line with their pre-GFC peaks of October 2007, a preliminary report from SelectingSuper's latest super funds performance survey reveals. According to the report, workplace default fund rolling 12 month returns broke ...

Future Fund tarred by its tobacco stocks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
... funds. The Future Fund's return would nonetheless place it as the fifth best fund in the country, according the SelectingSuper fund performance survey. But while the Senate Committee welcomed news of fund's returns, the reception the fund received concerning ...

AustSuper adds hedge IEq option

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... AustralianSuper estimates this will add about 0.04% annually which would take the option MER to around 0.67%. According to SelectingSuper, the AustralianSuper international shares option at 30 June 2012 ranked 41 from 153 but the sustainable international ...

Super funds out-perform TDs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... delivering 12 month returns of 6.8% are now almost two-thirds higher than their cash term deposit counterparts. SelectingSuper has just reported that the workplace default option index for the 12 months to end August 2012 skyrocketed in August to 6.8% ...

Two execs depart Telstra Super

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... CIO Jim Christensen, who joined the fund in 2009 after Steve Merlicek resigned to move to IOOF. According to the SelectingSuper performance tables, Telstra Super's one-year performance on the default-balanced option was 0% to June 30, 2012. This was ...

Fund returns recover to 3.1%

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
The SelectingSuper workplace default option index surged in July, with the rise sufficient to push rolling 12 month returns up to 3.1% - their highest level in 11 months. The strong bounce-back was triggered by the 4.2% July monthly return from the ...

Super FUM hits $1.4 trillion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... of fund returns for the superannuation market averaged 0.7% for 2011-12, remarkably similar to the 0.5% average SelectingSuper default option return in workplace funds, albeit the former is an economic measure and not an actual investment return metric. ...

Shorten reins in employer involvement in default super

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... funds, public sector funds and corporate funds), achieved median 12 month returns of +0.9% last year, according to SelectingSuper while corporate master trusts (funds run by banking and insurance groups) achieved -0.1%. The move has sparked some backlash ...

Super asset changes deliver positive return

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
The SelectingSuper workplace default option index rose slightly during June 2012, tipping super funds into positive territory for 2011-12 with an annual return of +0.5%. While sitting below inflation, the silver lining is in the contrast with the -7% ...