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Investor cash obsession worries wealth creators

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... Super Funds Investor Intention Report, one-year capital return expectations may have risen since March 2012, but most trustees are still skeptical about the longer-term trajectory of the market. Expectations for returns over five years stand at just ...

Some retail fund members pay double for insurance: AIST

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012
... premium of other funds but receiving less than a quarter more in benefits, said the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST). This happens when trustees are told by their trust deed that they have to use a related party insurance company ...

Market anxiety shrouds SMSF appetite for equities

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012
... fixed interest, 26% in cash and 1% in other types of investments. But despite a recent up-tick in the share market, SMSF trustees' allocation to Australian equities has not mirrored the strong performance of the share market in the September quarter. ...

Equity Trustees appoints new business development exec

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
Equity Trustees Limited (EQT) has appointed Alex Keen as key account manager for New South Wales. Before joining EQT, Keen was business development manager for Australian Unity Investments, representing its property business and joint venture partners ...

Christian Super appoints State Street as custodian

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... help funds manage their data. Through solution like State Street Investment Analytics we can provide services to help trustees and investment teams ease the increasing regulatory burden."

Investors more satisfied with SMSF than pooled funds

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
... same time be acting in the best interest of their client." In truth the dichotomy between the levels of satisfaction trustees have with SMSFs versus pooled super funds is not easy to explain with performance. Industry funds have actually underperformed ...

Equity Trustees appoints new business development exec

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
Equity Trustees Limited (EQT) has appointed Alex Keen as key account manager for New South Wales. Before joining EQT, Keen was business development manager for Australian Unity Investments, representing its property business and joint venture partners ...

Kohler campaign slammed by ASFA

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
... this year. "Clearly a return on this capital is being sought. A focus of the Eureka Report is on paid subscriptions by trustees of self -managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) and by other retail investors," said Clare, in the article published on the ...

Funding for women on super boards a union hand out: Cormann

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
... favours union dominated industry super funds, Cormann said in a statement. The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) and Women in Super last week launched a program to improve gender diversity on superannuation funds. Both organisations ...

Mercer partners with superMate in SMSF market

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... administration provider 'superMate' is designed to allow accountants, wealth managers and advisers who administer SMSFs for trustees to obtain Mercer actuarial certificates from the latest release of the platform. David Anderson, managing director & ...