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$1tr flows into US bond funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
Despite experts warning of a bond bubble, US mutual fund investors poured US$304 billion into bond funds last year. According to figures from the US Investment Company Institute, the bond fund inflows trounced the $153 billion that was withdrawn from ...

QROP advise must improve: AMP

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
While financial planners are regularly asked to advise on overseas pension transfers, considerable care must be taken to ensure a misunderstanding of international rules doesn't result in huge tax penalties. This was one of the overarching missives ...

Fewer asset consultants dominate super fund space

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... consultants or use them in conjunction with their own internal and other external advisers," said Rainmaker director of research Alex Dunnin. The data show that while 77% of the total number of not-for-profit funds use a single asset consultant, among ...

Four new SMSFs every hour

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
The ATO has just released its latest self managed super fund bulletin and it confirms the stellar growth for the sector is continuing unabated. According to the report, at the end of December last year there were 496,207 SMSFs and 945,207 SMSF members ...

William Blair ramps up bid to win super fund mandates

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... to Sydney to present to asset consultants and ratings houses. Head of Australia and New Zealand institutional distribution Alex Francois told Financial Standard back in November about the unique challenge off-shore product providers' face bringing offerings ...

KiwiSaver up 36% to A$12.2bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
KiwiSaver combined funds under management reached A$12.2 billion at end December last year after posting annual growth of 36%, more than twice the growth rate experienced by Australian super funds. KiwiSaver is the New Zealand equivalent of Australia's ...

CheckRisk opens in Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
As funds increasingly develop internal investment expertise, trustee boards will need to expand their own expertise to stay in control of their funds, and one way to do this is through an independant risk assessment of their portfolio. Denis Carroll ...

NAB Asset Servicing awarded new contracts

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... management strategies and investment management. Fitzpatricks has $2 billion under advice in offices across the eastern seaboard. Alex Hone, Director of Fitzpatricks and CEO of Atrium commented that "As a result of the continuing strong growth of the ...

Super concessions cost $32bn in 2011-12

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
The total cost of superannuation tax concessions climbed 10.5% in 2011-12 to reach a record $32.4 billion, according to the just released Tax Expenditures Statements. Superannuation tax concessions account for 29% of the $111 billion of total tax expenditures ...

Super funds post stellar returns - AREITs on top

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
... tax - reinforcing how negative news on superannuation is continuing to turn around," commented Rainmaker head of research Alex Dunnin. The average super fund has an annualised three-year return of 4.8% and 10-year returns stand at 6.4% per annum. The ...