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Club Plus Super offers planning, opens fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
... public offer fund. While there has been a veritable stampede among industry funds into the area of intra fund advice, Club Plus Super joins the likes of HESTA and TelstraSuper in offering holistic financial planning advice to its members. The new business ...

SG Hiscock wins $500 million AREIT mandate from Challenger

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
... part of Challenger's broader shift away from direct funds management to more of a boutique incubator model. The $500 million plus mandate win amounts to a significant piece of business for SG Hiscock, which according to Rainmaker information had total ...

Birth of the iPad adviser

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... remember words. Even more so, they remember the feeling," she said, meaning the multidimensional impact of an iPad presentation plus the 'wow' factor might just help foster a connection between the adviser and the client. Banaei also said the social ...

AustralianSuper wades into politics

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
... adequacy high on the agenda as negotiations progress to form the next government. Ian Silk, chief executive of the $30 billion-plus AustralianSuper, is renewing calls for SG to be raised from 9 per cent to 12 per cent as a matter of "utmost national ...

Sunsuper boosts relationships with retail hires

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
... account manager on the Gold Coast for industry super fund HostPlus. Clive Joss, who takes up the Mackay role, has 20-years-plus industry experience and most recently worked with Commonwealth Financial Planning as a senior insurance specialist and financial ...

Double positive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
... really. It remains within the range of high volatility trading since financial markets started scaring themselves back in May - plus 4.4 per cent (10 May) and minus 3.9 per cent (20 May). Double positive. Positive manufacturing surveys out of the numero ...

LGsuper and City Super in merger talks

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
Queensland government funds LGsuper and City Super are considering a merger to create a $5 billion-plus fund with over 90,000 members. LGsuper and City Super announced today they have agreed in-principle to merge the two funds. The merger is subject ...

AustralianSuper retains $1bn Concord mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... remain in place following Invesco Australia's buyout of Concord, confirmed a senior investment executive at the $30 billion-plus industry fund. Peter Curtis, senior manager of investments at AustralianSuper, said the fund's $1.025 billion Australian ...

REST Super taps Asia directly

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
REST Super has awarded a $25 million Asian equities mandate to Cooper Investors - the first time the $17 billion-plus industry fund has forayed into direct Asian equities investments. Damian Hill, chief executive of REST Super, said key executives of ...

AQR wins $330m-plus insto mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
Less than three months after AQR launched its Global Enhanced Equity Fund, the firm has received $337 million in mandates from three institutional investors - and is well on track to reach the $620 million mark. Jeff Dunn, head of AQR's Australian institutional ...