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Super returns up slightly to 12.8pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
The SelectingSuper Workplace rolling 12 month default option index recovered slightly during February to return 12.8% up from 12.5% at end January albeit this is still sharply down from December's 16.1%. Underpinning the results are that the rolling ...

Wanted: Money managers that are investors not product makers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
In an era when many investment managers are engineering overly complex, multi-layered model-driven strategies, traditional managers focused on long term fundamentals are finding a receptive audience. "It's performance, performance, performance. It's ...

US retirement assets reach US$23tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
The US retirement assets market reached a stellar US$23 trillion at end 2013, up 16% through the year. But while the figure, at roughly 14 times the amount in the Australian superannuation system, seems astronomical. It is actually corresponds similarly ...

Low volatility investing exploits low risk anomaly

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
The fallacy that taking high investment risks by its nature leads to high returns leads to too many investors taking unnecessary risks, said a major European investment manager. Frank Wirds, client portfolio manager at the Netherlands-based investment ...

APRA delays new data collections implementation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
APRA has announced it is delaying the implementation timetable for the new superannuation data collections and reopening consultations on the more contentious aspects of the data requirements. News of the delay and new consultations will be welcomed ...

VC capital raising crash 75pct in 2013

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
The Australian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association Limited (AVCAL) has raised alarm bells that the low rate venture capital fund raising in Australia could have serious long term economic implications. VC fund raising in 2012-13 crashed to ...

British govt to introduce pension choice

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
The British government is proposing a radical overhaul of the nation's private pensions system and will introduce choice of retirement product and simplify retiree taxation structures. The proposals were announced in the British 2014 Budget that was ...

Professional planners don't accept commissions: FPA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
Professional financial planners do not accept commissions because the conflicts of interest commissions create cannot be managed, says Matthew Rowe, chair of the Financial Planning Association. "We don't believe that a commission should be payable on ...

Super is now an economic driver

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
Industry Super Australia (ISA) will argue to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) that superannuation is now a mature contributor to the Australian economy and should be integrated into the nation's economy's macro management infrastructure. The ISA claim ...

Advisers have to act in client's best interests: PM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has echoed claims that regardless of what the government does to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation that financial advisers will still have undefined best interests obligations. Speaking at Parliament House ...