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Time to talk about asset classes: MTAA Super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
Rapidly evolving investment attitudes to using risk criteria when assembling portfolios is challenging conservative and out-dated views about how we categorise assets, said Paul Watson, deputy executive director of award winning industry fund MTAA Super. ...

Macquarie Clean Tech Fund raises $120m

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
Macquarie Funds Management Group has closed the first stage of its Clean Technology Fund after raising more than $120 million. The Macquarie Clean Technology Fund targets wholesale superannuation funds looking to invest in private equity fund of funds ...

FEAL appoints three new directors

The Fund Executives Association Ltd (FEAL) has appointed three new directors to the board following its Annual General Meeting (AGM) last week. The new directors are Damian Hill, chief executive of REST Super, Colin McGuinness, chief executive of NGS ...

MTAA Super appoints new chairman

The Motor Trades Association of Australia Superannuation Fund (MTAA Super) has appointed a leading public servant, Dr. Allan Hawke, as independent director and chairman of the fund's Trustee Board. Dr. Hawke is the current Chancellor of the Australian ...

First State Super 2006 SelectingSuper Fund of the Year

First State Superannuation Scheme has won the inaugural Rainmaker SelectingSuper Fund of the Year award among four other finalists. "This has been an historic year for First State Super. We attained public offer status in May, and have gained significant ...

MTAA speeds past $4bn

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2006
The Motor Trades Association of Australia Superannuation Fund (MTAA Super) has just broken through the $4 billion mark in funds under management, with $1 billion tumbling into the coffers in just the last year. The steep ramp up in funds under management ...

MTAA's Watson wins Fund Exec of the Year

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2006
MTAA's deputy executive director, Paul Watson, has been recognised as Fund Executive of the Year at the annual Fund Executives Association (FEAL) members' dinner last night. The FEAL award recognises outstanding leadership, achievement and innovation ...

MTAA Super launches its own pension products

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2006
Top ranking industry super fund MTAA Super has announced the launch of its own allocated and term allocated pension funds. "A significant number of our members are over 53 years of age and that's why we've created the pension options," said John Jones ...

Alternatives go mainstream

Alternative investments are increasingly becoming mainstream, with 86 per cent of global institutional investors revealing plans to add hedge fund managers to their current portfolios and 67 per cent planning to hire private equity managers. The figures ...

Local and global equities fuel returns: SelectingSuper

Superannuation and allocated pension fund members' returns have risen in the year ended January 2006 thanks to the strength of the local equities market and the rebound of international equities. According to the latest SelectingSuper performance index ...