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Asset Super launches into advice

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2006
Asset Super is to offer its members access to low cost single-issue financial planning through Money Solutions. The planning service will be call centre based and Asset Super members who phone the fund's call centre will be transferred to Money Solutions ...

Rainmaker's CompareOnline now compares 385 super funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2006
Rainmaker's CompareOnline super fund comparative web software for financial planners and super funds now compares 385 funds representing 18 million members and $460 billion in assets. "SelectingSuper's CompareOnline provides financial advisers, paraplanners ...

KiwiSaver appoints default providers

AMP, AXA New Zealand, ING (NZ), TOWER, Mercer Human Resource Consulting and ASB Group have been named the six default providers ready to accept members under New Zealand's KiwiSaver scheme to launch in July next year. Finance Minister Michael Cullen ...

Top insurers join with IFF to help with mental health

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2006
The job of a super fund trustee is to help boost retirement savings and one way to do this is do help members live long enough to spend it, which is why the Industry Funds Forum (IFF) mental health campaign is so important. If it helps the bottom-line ...

Access Economics still top consultant: Rainmaker

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2006
The latest Rainmaker super fund asset consultant performance survey confirms Access Economics has held onto top spot as Australia's best performing asset consultant. According to the report, Access Economics topped the 2005-06 performance tables, with ...

Analyse bonds differently to equities: Loomis Sayles

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2006
Bond markets behave differently to equity markets and investors trained around equities need to adjust their thinking when investing in income securities. Brett Wander, director of alpha strategies for Loomis Sayles, said, "It is commonplace to find ...

VFMC to take investments in-house

The Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) is set to review all of its externally managed investments and move as many as possible in-house, part of a new strategy spearheaded by the group's recently appointed chief investment officer, Leo de ...

Buy into a fund now, pay half later: Macq

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2006
Macquarie has just announced the launch of its Managed Fund Instalments (MFIs) scheme, a program which allows investors to buy into managed funds with only around half the total price payable at inception. Under the MFI system, investors will pay roughly ...

Macquarie signs BlueBay for emerging market debt

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2006
Macquarie Funds Management has announced that UK based fixed income credit specialist BlueBay Asset Management has been appointed as the emerging markets debt manager for a suite of Macquarie fixed interest products. BlueBay has been appointed to provide ...

Planning starts at 30: MLC

Gen-Xers or thirty-somethings can save as much as $10,000 per year by getting financial advice much earlier rather than later in life, according to new research from MLC. MLC technical manager, Andrew Lawless, said that tapping into the overlooked segment ...