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MTAA Super is fund of the year

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
MTAA Super has been awarded SelectingSuper's Fund of the Year by the Rainmaker Group beating finalists that included other star performers and market innovators HESTA Super, AustralianSuper, Host-Plus and CBUS. MTAA Super achieved its award after being ...

Back to basics for property

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
... LandMark White group, secured the services of ex-Investa fund manager Michael Este and ADPIA president Linden Toll to pioneer the fund. The fund breaks down into a target investment mix of 30 per cent Australian listed property, 25 per cent international ...

Hedge funds to beat

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
... Managers Winner Telstra Super Best Fund of Fund 2008 Winner Investor Select Advisors Global Opportunity Fund Finalist Pioneer AllWeather (AUD) Absolute Return Fund Finalist FRM - Absolute Alpha Fund PCC Limited Diversified (AUD)

Pure commodities funds win ratings

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
Climbing commodity prices have pioneered the establishment of pure commodity funds and a debut Standard and Poor's rating for three new products. Ratings house Standard & Poor's Fund Services recently assigned four-star ratings to three new pure commodity ...

Calliva suspends new loans to SMSFs

THE SHEET  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
Specialist lender Calliva Group has been forced to suspend new applications for its superannuation fund loan product, SuperAccess, after being told by its funder RBS that its facility would not be renewed. Calliva chief executive Vince Scully said RBS ...

LUCRF makes history

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
The superannuation industry doesn't often talk about its history but 2008 marks a century since the introduction of age pensions and thirty years since the birth of LUCRF, Australia's first modern super fund. The revolution began a century ago when ...

DWS hedge offers daily liquidity

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
DWS Investments could well be one of the pioneers of a new era in hedge funds when it launched a new product that offers daily liquidity and pricing to retail investors. DWS Investments, Deutsche Bank's global retail asset management arm, last week ...

McIvor to leave AustralianSuper

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2008
Alison McIvor, general manager of marketing and communications of $28 billion industry fund AustralianSuper, has resigned. McIvor tendered her resignation last week following ten years of service at AustralianSuper. "She's achieved some remarkable things ...

Emissions trading won't fix climate change: expert

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
Emissions trading won't lower emissions production as all it does is force up the profits of carbon producers particularly energy producers, argues the German MP who pioneered their feed-in tariff electricity system. Hans -Josef Fell, a leading Greens ...

Multiport buys Super Outsource

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2008
Managed accounts and portfolio administration provider Multiport has snapped up SMSF business, Super Outsource. Multiport officially acquired 100 per cent of Super Outsource in March, and is currently in the process of transitioning clients across to ...