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Advisers post record growth

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
... advisers operating in Australia than this time last year, the biggest jump in nearly four years, according to research from Rainmaker. This translates to there being nearly 18,000 advisers, up 9 per cent in the last 12 months. Rainmaker said that after ...

Smallco grows bigger

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2007
... developers, utilities and property trusts. The small caps sector averaged 49 per cent over the last year, according to Rainmaker data, and 35.61 per cent over three years.

Super boomtimes as confidence goes stratospheric

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2007
... spells the end of any prospect for an increases in the Superannuation Guarrantee beyond its current 9 per cent level. Rainmaker has just released analysis revealing contributions levels are already approaching 20 per cent of total wages and salaries. ...

Super fund returns best in a decade: SelectingSuper

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2007
... while Australian equity options averaged nearly double at a staggering 27.5 per cent. Associate director of research at Rainmaker, Andrew Keevers, said only the 1996-97 results bettered those of the last financial year, when funds averaged 16.3 per cent. ...

Treasury group seeds another boutique

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2007
... Macquarie Equities. The launch Cannae confirms the booming share market is continuing to attract more players. According to Rainmaker, three years ago only 47 boutique managers reported viable funds under management but today nearly 80 do, for an increase ...

Telstra Super recruits more planners

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2007
... Bhatia to their Melbourne office. Comrie was formerly with WHK Prescott and Bhatia formerly with the CBA. According to Rainmaker, Telstra Super manages nearly $11 billion and is in the elite top five super funds for 2006-07 performance for their default ...

Alpha-beta separation boosts indexing

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2007
... this impetus given its market penetration has been declining since 2002 when it peaked at 12 per cent, according to Rainmaker. Today it is only marginally above 10 per cent. Darroch said the biggest opportunity for the sector lay with advisers moving ...

Tyndall, Suncorp restructure investment ops

... both businesses." Combined funds under management for the investment groups is $23.4 billion at end March, according to Rainmaker. Both teams at the moment run similar amounts of Australian equities, but Suncorp runs an extra billion or so in Australian ...

FF enters market but quietly

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2007
... Fund's interest." Information will be available in the Fund's annual report, when it's released, they said. According to Rainmaker, the Future Fund is currently Australia's eleventh biggest investment manager. Until it started placing its $42 billion ...

Super contributions jump 42 pct to $114b

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2007
... transactions was from lower income earners making additional contributions to obtain the super co-contribution." Analysis from Rainmaker pushes the trend even harder, and if combined with Clare's surge estimate, said total contributions for the financial ...