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Index funds basking in the glow of 6,000

... points last week, investors in index funds can look back at another year of exceptional passive returns. According to Rainmaker Data, the top 10 index funds last year achieved an average return of 24 per cent, and that's without working up a sweat. The ...

Virgin Super zooms to top quartile

Virgin Super climbs up the Rainmaker Data performance tables to rank 30th out of over 200 competing products, another proof that index investing delivers value-for-money to investors. Launched in July 2005, Virgin Super offers two products, one for ...

Don't put all your credit in one basket

... average 5.6 per cent against the average Australian fixed income fund which returned a lower 5.45 per cent, according to Rainmaker Data. Michelle Baltazar

Superpartners chief resigns

... the group more than trebled its funds under administration (FUA) from $17 billion to over $55 billion, according to Rainmaker Data. "Superpartners certainly became a better place when he took over. He has done a really good job," said Ross Bernays, chief ...

Overseas investors drive hedge funds: Report

A new report into the hedge fund industry by specialist consultant John Glass and Rainmaker has found while the local hedge fund market is $22 billion, it's becoming a big exporter with one quarter of the money being managed for overseas investors. ...

Not-for-profits winning but master trusts catching up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2006
... 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 for workplace super funds was 2.8 per cent, in 2004-05 the gap was 1.8 per cent but by 2005-06 the gap was ...

Investment Stewardship Awards to be launched at Melb Symposium

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2006
... Australia's growing financial services' marketplace on par with Boston and Edinburgh notwithstanding that according to Rainmaker only 17 per cent of Australia's $1.2 trillion funds management market is domiciled in Victoria. However, a much higher proportion ...

FUM climbs to $1.3 trillion trumping national debt

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
... September, enough to pay off our national debt and still leave us with plenty of spare change for Christmas. According to Rainmaker's latest FUM survey for September, FUM owned by Australians is now $1.3 trillion having climbed 15 per cent during the ...

S&P signs up IOOF for planner distribution deal

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2006
... footprint. " Scott Monotti, IOOF's head of adviser solutions, said they chose S&P because it is comprehensive. According to Rainmaker, S&P is the third most widely used managed fund research service measured by planner reach, behind van Eyk and Morningstar. ...

Rainmaker's CompareOnline now compares 385 super funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2006
Rainmaker's CompareOnline super fund comparative web software for financial planners and super funds now compares 385 funds representing 18 million members and $460 billion in assets. "SelectingSuper's CompareOnline provides financial advisers, paraplanners ...