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Super fees jump triple inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2007
... 42 basis points and the lowest cost retirement product is AGEST charging 52 basis points. AustralianSuper topped the rankings for lowest cost deluxe choice fund while AustChoice topped the rankings for the lowest cost premium choice fund. The study diagnoses ...

Can the cash-fest save our competitiveness?

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2007
... partners compiles the World Competitiveness Yearbook each year, which will be released in Australia tomorrow. The Australian rankings set out our performance on a wide range of economic indicators. Of 55 national economies, Australia slipped to 12th ...

Billion dollar baby

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2007
... Forget oil or dotcoms, the best way to make money fast is hedge fund management, according to Alpha magazine's top 25 rankings of hedge fund earners, with 2006 winner James Simons personally pulling in a staggering US$1.7 billion. In comparison, last ...

Industry funds and master trusts share top honours

CHRIS NICHOLLS AND ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2007
SelectingSuper has released its one, three and five year performance rankings for super funds up to 28 February 2007, showing a fairly even balance between the segments leading the performance pack. According to the benchmark indices, the Rainmaker/SelectingSuper ...

US pension funds no longer the big boys

... including General Motors, General Electric, IBM, Lucent Technologies and Boeing. By 2005, only General Motors remains in the rankings but has since slipped from number 7 to number 14. Taking the top spot is Japan's Government Pension Investment fund ...

Past performance still a bad future indicator: S&P

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
... maintained their top-half ranking over five consecutive 12 month periods. The incidence for maintaining top-quartile rankings were even tighter at less than 3 per cent, the research group said. Srikant Dash, S&P index strategist, said, "Standard & Poor's ...

SELECT tops hedge fund ratings

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2006
... Two of Select Asset Management's (SELECT) alternative investment funds have topped Standard & Poor's (S&P) hedge fund rankings with both receiving five star ratings. The Select Gottex Market Neutral Fund and a two times leveraged version of the fund ...

BankWest moves up the rankings

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
BankWest will end 2006 as the seventh largest retail deposits bank in the country overtaking Suncorp, according to Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) figures. David Rose, head of marketing and products, said the jump up the ladder, the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2006
... per cent of establishments performed some kind of natural resource management activity with weeds and pests heading the rankings. The Victorian Government has moved to reduce the level of government fees and charges that have been criticized by the Federal ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2006
In the latest Global Competitiveness Rankings by the Geneva based World Economic Forum Australia has slipped from its previous position of 10th to 19th. The rankings are a result of a global Executive Opinion Survey of 11,000 business leaders in 125 ...