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Don't put all your credit in one basket

... Strong corporate balance sheets and low levels of gearing by corporates will see healthy cash flows and historically low default rates," said Gavin Goodhand, the group's fixed income portfolio manager. But he added that there is a risk that in late 2007 ...

JUST Super and Print Super to merge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2006
... natural fit." But its not just the memberships that are so similar as both funds have 10 investment choices and both funds' default investment choices have delivered near identical returns. According to SelectingSuper, in the year to end September 2006 ...

Not-for-profits winning but master trusts catching up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2006
Default investment options of not-for-profit funds as a group continue to outperform master trust default options but the gap has narrowed by two-thirds in just the last three years. According to research just released by Rainmaker, in 2003-04 the gap ...

Aust Meat Industry Super Trust opens to the public

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
... this point in time we haven't been able to take them." AMIST manages $635 million on behalf of its 60,000 members. Its default option was ranked in the top 10 for three year returns by SelectingSuper, its diversified growth option was ranked fourth and ...

Rainmaker's CompareOnline now compares 385 super funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2006
... thousands of investment options. "With even industry funds expanding their menus, it is no longer good enough to only focus on default options," he said.

KiwiSaver appoints default providers

AMP, AXA New Zealand, ING (NZ), TOWER, Mercer Human Resource Consulting and ASB Group have been named the six default providers ready to accept members under New Zealand's KiwiSaver scheme to launch in July next year. Finance Minister Michael Cullen ...

HOST-PLUS is Money Magazine's best of the best

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2006
... services that we believe will go a long way in allowing us to continue this success." According to SelectingSuper, HOST-PLUS' default investment option at end October was ranked 10 from 67 over five years even though over the last 12 months it has slipped ...

NSW Bookmakers and Perpetual top super tables

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2006
The latest Rainmaker/SelectingSuper Performance Tables have revealed continuing strong returns for default and Australian shares options for super funds, with NSW Bookmakers topping the default options scorecard and Perpetual leading the pack in Australian ...

Access Economics still top consultant: Rainmaker

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2006
... obtained by contrasting each fund's asset consultant against the fund's one year net performance to 30 June 2006 for their default investment option." Funds were then compared by the average outcome. The report says this methodology may not be accepted ...

ASIC should adopt dollar-base performance metrics: ISN

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2006
... direct comparisons, he said. Weaven's comments coincide with the release of the latest Rainmaker NBTM study comparing default options for industry funds and master trusts showing that over one, three and five years industry super funds, on average, delivered ...