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Super funds should own fund managers: Gray

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
... adjunct professor at UTS, argues that one of the ways funds could cut cost and manage the headache of too much investment choice, is to actually own the managers or hold stakes in their businesses. The end result is an alignment of interest and business ...

AIST measures investment choice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2009
... type investments. Fiona Reynolds, chief executive at AIST, said the survey raised questions around the role of investment choice in super funds. "We need to ask whether it's really necessary to have so much investor choice in superannuation, given that ...

Liquidity problem in unlisted assets overstated: RWA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
Liquidity is not a problem for most funds with high weightings to unlisted assets because they are protected by strong positive cashflows and most members are in the diversified default option. The criticism against unlisted valuation practices by retail ...

Telstra Super rolls out phone advice

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... through superannuation advisers," the fund said in a statement. This limited advice includes information on investment choice, contributions, and adequacy of insurance cover. Telstra Super said that the initiative would streamline its service offering ...

Flawed fund analysis demands new metric: Study

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... funds provided the asset allocations are determined by the trustees and not through fund members exercising investment choice. This new 'whole of fund' metric is needed because the "inability of investors to reliably compare individual funds or investments ...

Hedge funds on a refund policy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... 'post-crisis' hedge funds will be more transparent, provide more documentation and governance records and offer more investment choice.

Super breakthrough for SMAs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
It wasn't quite a Eureka moment but after two years in the making, Aviva has come up with a separately managed account (SMA) that promises to resolve a lot of the issues that planners often face when they want to use the product. Due for release after ...

SIPPs back their expertise

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
A UK based Barclays Stockbroking survey has found nearly nine out of 10 self invested personal pensioners (SIPP) believe they can outperform a professional pension fund manager. The survey found 89 per cent of SIPP investors opened a SIPP account because ...

Excess choice boosts advice

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
Scared of losing your financial planning job? Don't worry as too much investment choice leave investors befuddled, in turn driving the need for more good advisers. Barry Wyatt, national manager business development, AXA Australia, and speaker at the ...

Super is for income, not wealth

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
Super funds should start reporting their performance based on how much income they can provide to members on retirement, not on how much they return in the intervening period when the savings are locked up, said a US-based retirement expert. Don Ezra ...