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Perennial Aussie equities fund receives Zenith rating

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... return to get back to pre GFC levels, and investors are expecting further volatility in the future," Perennial head of retail funds management Brian Thomas said.

New report stokes 'Compare the Pair' flames

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... superannuation report by the McKell Institute has fanned the flames of the on-going performance debate between industry and retail funds by highlighting the returns gap between the two segments over the last 25 years. The research uses historical differences ...

Independent trustees fix wrong problem

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... the surprise is that it's retail rather than industry funds where independence is more complex. Overlaid with how retail funds have more entwined relationships with their service providers, the report points to retail funds rather than industry funds ...

Henderson turns fund flows around

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... to A£74.7 billion ($135 billion) following strong demand for the UK and Australian listed fund manager's global retail funds franchise. Underlying profits edged up slightly to A£90.7 million ($164 million) for the first half of the year, from A£88.5m ...

Super posts 12.7 pct for FY2014

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... 6.8% pa. Workplace not-for-profit super funds meanwhile achieved 12 month returns of 12.8% compared to corporate retail funds which achieved 11.9% for a segment gap that has contracted to less than 1.0 percentage point due the relative improvement in ...

Brogden rejects cross-selling enticement fears

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... related entities from offering enticements to employers when selecting default funds." "This applies just as much to retail funds as it does to union-owned industry funds. The best outcome for consumers is for funds to be forced to compete for default ...

Banks will struggle to profit from super: Sunsuper CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014
... scrutiny from the Financial System Review - is making it impossible for banks to continue charging high fees for their retail funds. This led him to question whether superannuation will continue to be profitable for the banks. "Banks are increasingly ...

What happened to the ISA-FSC accord?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... the Coalition has made no secret of the fact it wants to remove this vital channel of distribution. The bank-owned retail funds are eager for this to happen, as they will be able to target their business bank customers with their MySuper products. Whiteley ...

Funds return 11% in May

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... average annual returns are unchanged on 6.9% pa. Not-for-profit super funds achieved 12 month returns of 11.7% and retail funds (ie corporate master trusts) achieved 9.7% for a segment gap that has settled back to 2.0 percentage points due the relative ...

Citi develops white label banking for industry funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... offering to white label its retail banking services for industry super funds as a way of stemming the outflow to retail funds and self-managed super funds (SMSFs), Financial Standard can reveal. In what could prove a lifeline to industry funds in the ...