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Aircraft fund seeks capital

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
... raising, the IGAF - which is backed by Australian superannuation funds AUSCOAL Superannuation, Stevedoring Employees Retirement Fund and Seafarers Retirement Fund - is seeking to garner more support from investors as it forges on to grow its asset base. ...

SERF to offer "cash" and "balanced" options

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
Members of the $1.65 billion Stevedoring Employees Retirement Fund will have access to two new investment options this year. Starting 1 January 2009, members of the industry fund will be able to invest in the fund's balanced and cash strategies, on ...

Right on target: Vanguard

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
Investors can avoid the pitfalls of emotion-driven investing through target-date funds, according to research from Vanguard. The Vanguard Centre for Retirement Research in the US published a report in November last year that surveyed the portfolios ...

MTAA Super is fund of the year

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... Personal Super Fund of the Year in the premium-choice division. First State Super held on to its crown as the Retirement Fund of the Year in the value-choice division while AustralianSuper took out the deluxe-choice division. SERF, the super fund for ...

AusSuper appoints Comms GM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
... at AustralianSuper for 10 years and was instrumental to the re-branding process transitioning from Australian Retirement Fund to AustralianSuper and also integral to developing the fund's retirement division. McIvor resigned from AustralianSuper in June ...

First State Super wins low cost race

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
... addition to winning the lowest cost fund, First State Super was also found to be the lowest cost public offer retirement fund and VALUE-choice fund under the Rainmaker Benchmarking criteria. First State Super is the 9th largest fund in Australia with ...

Chile not so hot on fixed income

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
The Chilean Pension Fund Administrators' Association (CPAA) urged its young members not to reduce their allocation in equities in favour of fixed income in the wake of the global financial crisis. CPAA, the umbrella body representing the equivalent ...

Aussie super funds lead pension growth

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
Australia's retirement funds including State Super, Australian Super, UniSuper and the Future Fund are some of the fastest growing in the world, rising at an average compound annual growth rate of 17 per cent. The Pensions & Investments/Watson Wyatt ...

Record fall in super fees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
... with a total expense ratio (TER) of 0.41 per cent was found to be the lowest cost public offer fund, public offer Retirement fund and VALUE-choice fund. AustralianSuper was found to be the lowest cost DELUXE-choice fund with a TER of 0.79 per cent while ...

CSRF chases alpha

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2008
The Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund (CSRF) awarded Barclays Global Investors (BGI) and BlackRock Investment Management a $100 million mandate each to capture short-term equity market opportunities. The mandates were allocated to the BGI ...