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Group insurers at mercy of a handful of super funds

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2016
... superannuation funds to deliver insurance value to members and on the insurer to establish profitable franchises," the Rainmaker report said. The respective market strength of each party and counter party will thus be an important underpinning to how ...

Alternative mandates eclipse equities

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
... shape. Australia's largest super fund awarded 47 mandates during 2015, the most by any entity included in the Rainmaker report. As expected the fund brought a lot of Australian equities mandates in-house last year, taking on about $4 billion. It also ...

British Airways to clash in court with pension trustee

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
British Airways is taking one of its pension fund's trustees to court over increases in payments to the airline's retired workers. At the heart of the case, which will be heard next February, is the cloudy relationship between the trustee and the entity ...

Blue Sky launches first listed investment company

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... has almost tripled from 5% in 1997 to 14% in 2013, and is forecast to rise to nearly 20% by 2033 according to a Rainmaker report from December 2013. With a low correlation to traditional asset classes such as listed equities and bonds, Blue Sky said ...

Super fees fall to 1.23%

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013
Super fund fees have fallen to 1.23% but increased to $18.6 billion on the back of rising assets under management, reveals new research from Rainmaker. The researcher has just released their annual superannuation fee report that analysed fees offered ...

Super funds at a 34-month high

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013
The recovery in super fund returns is continuing with the SelectingSuper Workplace default option index climbing again to a 34-month high of 12.6% by end February 2013. Super fund returns over the past year are now so strong that they are three times ...

Non-aligned advisers driving new platforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... director. The largest non-institutionally owned groups are PIS, Sentry, Wealthsure, Synchron and AFS, note the Rainmaker report. AMP-AXA was meanwhile confirmed as the largest institutionally owned group with 12 licensees and 3,128 planners, followed ...

Mandates slugged by downturn

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... asset sectors scoring the business, albeit the long term shift away from equites has now turned around," the Rainmaker report stated. "Mandates to bonds/cash are meanwhile continuing their upward trend and property mandates are broadly stable." Other ...

Rainmaker releases 2012 platform report

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... service and which of their investment products and capabilities may be most suitable and in what way," noted the Rainmaker report. Rainmaker said that the technology advantages offered by platforms will continue to cement their role in the wealth management ...

AXA releases new North

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
AXA has officially launched its next generation of the North platform, revealing the upgrade to over 2,000 advisers on its roadshows this week. As previously reported by Financial Standard, the North's new generation platform builds on the capital guaranteed ...