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First Super refines investment strategy

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... option will be transferred to the Balanced option. Those who hold High Growth options will become account holders in the Share Plus option. The changes means that "First Super's returns may not match those of some other funds when markets boom, but will ...

LUCRF widens insurance choice

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
The $2 billion-plus LUCRF Super has improved its income protection insurance and introduced a range of options that allow members to insure their income for a dollar amount. Greg Sword, chief executive of LUCRF Super said the fund had implemented a ...

Solaris performance fee option wins $1bn from instos

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
... Investment Management clocked $1 billion from institutional investors within seven months under its unusual low fixed fee plus performance-fee based payment structure - proof that Frontier's proposed flat dollar fee model has massive insto appeal. The ...

SelectingSuper unveils 2009 top super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
SelectingSuper has recognised the industry's finest, with more than 20 of the country's 400-plus super funds making it to this year's awards shortlist. This morning's SelectingSuper Awards recognised REST Super as the Fund of the Year, and paid tribute ...

EISS appoints Mercer as consultant

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2009
The $2 billion plus NSW-based Energy Industries Superannuation Scheme has appointed Mercer as its new asset consultant. According to an October newsletter of EISS, which caters to employees working in the energy industry in New South Wales, Mercer was ...

Super funds eye catastrophic investing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
... liability is capped. Credit Suisse offers four types of portfolios with return expectations ranging from three-month LIBOR plus 3 per cent to as much as three-month LIBOR plus 20 per cent per year. Niklaus Hilti, the group's Zurich-based head of insurance-linked ...

Planner software innovations to pressure platforms

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2009
... the AdviserLogic solution is the simplicity of the home screen interface that can be customised to the needs of advisers, plus the ability for clients to access and view their files and update personal information and details is a real bonus," said Financial ...

Four pillars of a good hedge fund: Ashton

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
... "strong, independent" administrator, he said. Ashton's feeder funds into the Paulson products reaped as much as 30 per cent plus returns for example for the year to May (Ashton-Paulson Event Driven Fund). As such it's no wonder investors and fellow managers ...

What China wants China gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
... revised growth target for 2010 but not a few private forecasters have already revised their predictions to around 10 per cent plus economic expansion for the coming year. What China wants, China gets. And Australia is getting some too.

25 bps to win Melbourne Cup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
... normality into the system. Besides Australia's umbilical cord is now more attached to China - forecast to grow by 10 per cent plus next year - than America, which remains in strife. But the US - shrinking as it may be -- remains the biggest economy of ...