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Aviva cuts super to pension admin time

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
Aviva Australia improved its online adviser software, n-link, to enable financial planners to set up pension accounts and allow clients to receive payments in three days, a fraction of the time needed on other platforms. Previously, financial advisers ...

Investors influence credit ratings

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
Credit rating agencies are bowing to the pressure of investors, issuers, and underwriters to change their ratings, a new survey shows. A recent member opinion poll conducted by the CFA Institute found that 11 per cent of those surveyed witnessed a CRA ...

Unlisted assets poised for higher illiquidity premiums

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
Property experts predict the LPT sell-off will trigger a price correction in the direct property market but at least when the dust settles, super funds should enjoy illiquidity premiums not seen in years. Latest Rainmaker Data shows the performance ...

SELECT guides investors to managed futures

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
SELECT Asset Management highlights the diversification benefits and potential to generate strong returns in down equity markets of managed futures in a new information guide for retail investors. According to the firm's The Case for Managed Futures ...

SAM green funds re-branded to Vanguard

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2008
Two Sustainable Asset Management (SAM) funds are shedding their SAM titles and will now fall under the Vanguard banner, as part of a re-branding exercise. The re-branded Vanguard Sustainability Leaders Australian Shares Fund and Vanguard Sustainability ...

Schroders launches geared global fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
Schroders Investment Management has launched the Geared Global Active Value fund, which gives retail investors access to a geared version of the firm's successful global equity fund. The Schroders Geared Global Active Value uses external lenders to ...

SMSFs take up instalment warrants

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2008
Instalment warrants will become more widely used by self managed super fund (SMSF) trustees as they become familiar with the strategy and banks start providing more products that enable them to do so, according to SuperConcepts. Graeme Colley, ING Australia ...

Everest B&B wins $200m Sunsuper mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2008
Sunsuper awarded Everest Babcock & Brown a $200 million mandate to construct an absolute return fund for the super fund. Jeremy Reid, Everest Babcock & Brown chief executive, said the Sunsuper mandate represented the firm's first Australian institutional ...

Fee for service planners on the rise

A sub-segment of financial planners expect revenue from pure 'fee for service' models to increase to almost a quarter of their total revenue in three years, a survey of more than 1,100 planners has found. The inaugural Investment Trends Planner Business ...

BT raises savings for term deposits

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2008
BT Financial Group raises the stakes in providing the best cash alternative for super investors after boosting its one-year term deposit rate by 30 basis points to 8.4 per cent. According to the firm, it increased its term deposit rate after roughly ...