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Super returns climb back driven by global shares, property

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2007
Improving international equities and property markets have helped super funds recover their returns to an average 12.2 per cent for the year to end April, up from 10 per cent as at end March, according to SelectingSuper. In the latest SelectingSuper ...

Aon renews vows with AIG

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2007
Aon Master Trust has signed a new three year agreement with AIG Life, extending the company's seven year partnership as group insurance partner. Aon's director of superannuation, Steve Gaffney, said working together, the two companies had reduced claims ...

Super fees battle competition and returns

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007
The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has released figures it says shows competition and increasing funds under management are driving down fees, however recent Rainmaker data paints a different picture. The IFSA figures to June 2006 ...

Super fees jump triple inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2007
Rainmaker has released their 2007 super and retirement fund survey, showing fees have jumped 8 per cent, or nearly three times the inflation rate. But the continuing performance bull run is distracting funds more focused on expanding their investments ...

Market volatility, rising AUD hits super funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2007
Volatile stock markets and the surging Australian dollar are taking their toll as super fund returns trim back to just over 10 per cent for the 12 months to end March. The size of the slowdown is significant - just one year ago funds were delivering ...

Equity Trustees' sunny forecast

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2007
... office opening at the end of 2006 and the recent announcement of our intended acquisition of the Freedom of Choice master trust and IDPS. "These initiatives indicate that we are not standing still. It is our intention to continue to grow our business ...

Mariner welcomes head of insto business

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2007
... 2005 and helped drive sales for the multi-manager vehicles, investment consulting and the institutional corporate master trust. Prior to Russell Panaretos spent time with Skandia as national manager corporate superannuation as well as spending nine years ...

Unionised workers only half all industry fund members

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2007
New research shows that industry funds are winning post-super choice, despite the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reporting that the proportion of private sector workers belonging to a union is only 15 per cent. According to the ABS, less than ...

Industry funds and master trusts share top honours

CHRIS NICHOLLS AND ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2007
... trusts and two corporate funds making up the top 10 performers over the last 12 months. But over five years only one master trust, Australian Unity, made the cut. Despite the leading funds matching eachother, the not for profit one year average of 13.4 ...

Industry funds show master trusts a clean pair of heels

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2007
Eleven consecutive surveys, performed over one, three and five years, show industry super funds' advantage over master trusts isn't just luck. The research, commissioned by Industry Fund Services and carried out by Rainmaker Information, showed that ...