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UCSuper appoints IUS as insurer

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... Services as its new insurer. UCSuper, which had $244 in funds under management at 31 December last year according to Rainmaker Information, signed a deal to bring on IUS as its new insurer early last month. IUS replaces CommInsure, noted data from Rainmaker ...

TGM wins Asset Super mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
... international equities investments, which at the end of March was valued at approximately $250 million, according to Rainmaker Information. Meanwhile Quentin Ayers was in charge of its alternatives portfolio. Quentin Ayers' mandate was terminated in ...

NFP super beats retail over 10 yrs

... superannuation funds outperformed retail master trusts by more than 2 per cent per year in the past 10 years, new research found. Rainmaker Information modelling found a worker in a not-for-profit super fund earning $50,000 with $50,000 already accumulated ...

Progressive trumps all with simple strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
... option has beaten most of its larger well-known peers in the same category by 3 per cent over a five-year period to May. Rainmaker SelectingSuper data found the Progressive Superannuation Plan - Balanced option returned more than 7 per cent over five ...

Super funds stage comeback

... have had since super started its downward spiral in June 2007," said Alex Dunnin, director of research and editorial at Rainmaker. "Shares bouncing back like this reinforce how rapidly markets can climb back once markets price in most of the bad news. ...

LPTs recover and show value

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... in a client's portfolio. This is despite the asset class losing almost 50 per cent over a year to May, research from Rainmaker found. "On the face of it a number of them seem like they're very good value and a number of them are. Right now most, if not ...

Shareholder activism misses the mark

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... company, said Ralph, who was an independent non-executive director at Babcock & Brown Direct Investment fund according to Rainmaker. She said one of the best ways to change the culture of a listed company board is to vote-off the company chair. "If you ...

Pillar tenders for RBF-TAS deal

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... process of selecting its new administrator. The fund currently manages its administration in-house, according to data from Rainmaker Information. Peter Beck, chief executive of Pillar Administration, said RBF-TAS was expected to announce the result of ...

ASIC lifts restrictions on intra-fund advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
... investment." More to do But the bigger truth is, the industry still has a long way to go in engaging the public. According to Rainmaker Research, more than 70 per cent of all super funds provide either bundled or unbundled financial advice. That is ...

TechInvest tops fastest growing fundie table

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
... gaining $78 million in flows to tip over the $100 million funds under management (FUM) mark over the past year. The latest Rainmaker Information Roundup report for the March quarter found TechInvest topped the list of fastest growing fund managers growing ...