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Investec eyes SMSF market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
... "What's more interesting in terms of where it can actually get to is the self managed super fund (SMSF) area. We're trying to figure out how we can go there because it's much more akin to a retail side of the market," he said. He said taxation changes ...

Fund fees not coming down: Cooper

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
... corporate master trust fell from 1.24 per cent in 2002 to 0.79 per cent in 2008, a 36 per cent drop in percentage terms and a figure well below the ideal "one per cent fee" mark touted by regulators prior to the super review. But Cooper said using the ...

New performance reporting standards for retail funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
The Investment and Financial Services Association is implementing a new investment reporting format that will require retail super funds to revert back to performance figures gross of any ongoing and advice fees. The objective is to facilitate comparability ...

Freaked out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
... news 1: US jobless claims rose by 25,000 to 471,000 in the week ended 15 May. Much was made of the observation that this figure was the highest level in a month and worse than the expected reduction to 440,000. Interpretation? The recovery has stalled ...

Euro downs Supermodel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
Europhobe. Dictionary.com defines this as "a person who dislikes Europe, its culture, and Europeans," to which we may now add, the euro. Yes Virginia, it seems most of us are turning Europhobes now. Greece gave euros a bad smell and now financial markets ...

Service core to Tower mandate: AustralianSuper

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
Better and faster service was a core reason why AustralianSuper awarded Tower one of the largest insurance mandates in the industry last year, said the fund's chief executive, Ian Silk. Speaking at the Institute of Actuaries of Australia conference ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2010
The Australian stock market had gained ground at noon after positive Australian employment figures with the resource sector leading the charge. At 1209 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 57.3 points higher, by 1.25 per cent, at 4,630.3 points ...

New insurance benchmarks on the cards

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
The insurance industry could soon face a price shake-up as the Institute of Actuaries of Australia gears up to launch a new set of life tables aimed at providing price benchmarks to insurers. The institute has been collating information from major life ...

PGI global strategy wins $500m mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
... Pihlblad, portfolio manager of the strategy, said more than $4 billion is managed on behalf of clients outside the US and that figure is growing. The fund manager was awarded a $500 million mandate from the Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund ...

Feeding the fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
Feeding the fear. Times like these, it's not so difficult to do. Just replace the word "Greece" with "global" in Greece sovereign crisis and what do you have? You have Global Sovereign Crisis and the attendant panic and volatility in the financial markets ...