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Clients duck for income cover

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
... compiled by international financial consulting group NMG Financial Services Consulting. It is considered a key industry benchmarking report, said PIS.

Advisers award top insurers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
... based on a combination of quantitative and qualitative research, including data from Plan For Life Risk Insurance Benchmarking Reports in each of the four quarters of 2008. More than 400 advisers were then surveyed to analyse each insurance company's ...

First State Super wins low cost race

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
... make $15 billion First State Super the 'lowest cost' public offer fund in Australia, based on the latest Rainmaker Benchmarking report. The report reviewed 502 funds across all categories and acknowledged First State Super as the lowest cost public offer ...

AIG Australia insulated from US woes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
... including pension fund and platform heavy weights ARIA, REST, GESB and BT. According to the Rainmaker super fund Benchmarking Report analysis of the 2008 group insurance market, AIG is the biggest insurer measured by total members covered for death-only ...

Record fall in super fees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
... Andrew Keevers, Rainmaker's associate director of research and author of the study that is contained in the Rainmaker Benchmarking report, said it's the first fall in three years. "The headline results are that Workplace Super funds now average 1.41 ...

Telstra Super FP hires Coin

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2008
... Financial Planning. Coin was ranked number one for "Best Plan Production" and "Best Modelling" in the Planning Software Benchmarking and Technology Report, developed by Investment Trends in December 2007.

Investment Trends names top SMAs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
... (SMA) pack to be crowned the provider with best overall functionality, according to Investment Trends' latest SMA Benchmarking and Technology report. BlackRock, who was also named last year's number one provider along with its software partner Praemium ...

ITG focuses on after-tax benchmarks

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... analytics Tania Castro, who spoke at the CMSF conference on Monday, new research by the firm shows that after tax benchmarking has become increasingly important. "Growing demand for transparent systems and benchmarks has been accompanied by significant ...

2007 Rainmaker SelectingSuper Awards winners

... of their performance and innovative features introduced over the past twelve months. On the back of these rigorous benchmarking, AustralianSuper was named the winner of the Superannuation Fund of the Year, First State Super was named the Retirement Product ...

Quant experts enter new continuum

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2007
... will be 100 per cent quantitative and rely on an after-tax benchmark. Continuum said in a release it saw after-tax benchmarking as "the future of the fund management industry." Co-founder Cappetta said, "We've all gained a lot of experience over the ...