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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 ...

EQT completes its eastern-seaboard network

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2007
Entrenching its strategy to become a fully integrated eastern-seaboard trustee and fund services, funds management and advisory group, Equity Trustees (EQT) is holding its first board meeting in Sydney after celebrating the opening of its Brisbane office ...

Not-for-profits winning but master trusts catching up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2006
Default investment options of not-for-profit funds as a group continue to outperform master trust default options but the gap has narrowed by two-thirds in just the last three years. According to research just released by Rainmaker, in 2003-04 the gap ...

EQT expands into Queensland

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2006
... in Melbourne and have recently complemented this in Sydney through the acquisition of the Wealthpac superannuation master trust. With a solid base on which to build, the timing is right to expand into growth markets such as Queensland." Hanlon said EQT ...

ASIC should adopt dollar-base performance metrics: ISN

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2006
The Industry Super Network (ISN) has called on the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) to cut through incessant debates about how we measure super fund performance by adopting a 'net benefit to member' (NMTM) model focusing on the ...