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Countdown to awards

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
The Rainmaker SelectingSuper Awards are just around the corner, an event that showcases the best super funds in the country. This year's awards held at the Westin Hotel, Sydney on 6 November and hosted by sporting television personality Ken Sutcliffe ...

ISN to APRA: get on with it

... methodologies they prefer, he added. Andrew Keevers, associate director of research at Rainmaker, the research firm behind SelectingSuper, said unfortunately a small number of super funds can be very selective about releasing their results at specific ...

Super still a great investment despite impact of GFC: Bowen

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
... superannuation is a long term investment and there will be fluctuations, at times major fluctuations. According to SelectingSuper, while average returns for funds in 2008-09 are -13 per cent, they have made a remarkable recovery since December when they ...

Progressive trumps all with simple strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
... 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 years to May and ...

Super funds stage comeback

... astonishing reversal of fortunes in just six months. According to a performance survey of 41 super funds conducted by SelectingSuper* this month, preliminary results for the year show that average fund returns, or the average performance of the balanced ...

Flawed fund analysis demands new metric: Study

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... with respect to the five year period 2002-06. However and by way of comparison, Rainmaker's previously released SelectingSuper five year performance research for the period 2004-08 was based on an analysis of 212 super funds.

Shift to altern assets fuel valuation concerns: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... assets combine to crush the gap between not for profit and retail funds. For example, according to the May 2009 SelectingSuper performance figures, not for profit funds are averaging twelve month returns of -16.3 per cent while corporate master trusts ...

REST deploys $300m mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... in the country. For their default option they ranked 10th over 1-year and 7th over a 3-year period, according to SelectingSuper.

REST activates growth strategy

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
... country. For their default option they ranked 8th over 1-year to February and 7th over a 3-year period, according to SelectingSuper.

Gloves off ahead of APRA report

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
... resulted in one of AMP's super investment options ranking among the worst performing default options according to SelectingSuper, but he said the firm will fix its strategy to prevent current members from switching into a low-risk option or an industry ...