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Top and bottom super performance differ by 36pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
The global financial crisis has widened the performance gap between the best and worst performing default workplace super funds to 36 per cent, treble their historic difference, according to SelectingSuper data. The latest SelectingSuper super fund ...

RARE wins $10m mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
... infrastructure investments. "The trustee has reviewed a select group of prospective infrastructure investment managers to determine the most suitable investment vehicle and manager, and recently appointed RARE Infrastructure Limited to manage the fund's ...

Industry unites for super message

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
With the public set to receive their super statements next month, nine financial services industry bodies made the unprecedented move to join forces and deliver a single message to investors and retirees. The Superannuation Stakeholder Group produced ...

Unilever Super seeks super provider

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
... a single super provider as soon as mid-2009. Early last year, Unilever Super conducted research among its members to determine their views on restructuring the fund to outsource its super functions to external providers. Following that research, the ...

MLC axes 120 workers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
MLC has cut 120 staff across its business but left the firm's investment management division intact. According to a company spokesperson, the staff cuts are part of an overall review of resources in light of bad markets. It is unclear which specific ...

ASIC extends short selling ban till March

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
... other markets and coincided with a rise in market volatility. ASIC said it needs times to examine these developments and determine the role of short selling and other "predatory practices" and whether those risks exist locally. This follows an announcement ...

Janus banks on maths for success

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
Melbourne-based Janus Capital Asia is staying true to its quantitative analysis investment strategies to win mandates this year. John Landau, head of Australian operations at Janus Capital, there's been "a lot of strong interest" across Janus and Enhanced ...

State Street scores $1bn mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
State Street Global Asset Managers wins a $1 billion global mandate from one of the world's top 20 sovereign funds, the $43 billion Alaskan Permanent Fund Corporation. The trustee board of the American super fund handed the mandate to State Street on ...

The January effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
Where's the January effect when you need it most? Wikipedia describes this stock market phenomenon best: "The January effect is the tendency of the stock market to rise between December 31 and the end of the first week in January. There are many theories ...

Right on target: Vanguard

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
Investors can avoid the pitfalls of emotion-driven investing through target-date funds, according to research from Vanguard. The Vanguard Centre for Retirement Research in the US published a report in November last year that surveyed the portfolios ...