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Alternative low-cost retirement funds on rise in US

... outlook' report on the global asset management released by Deloitte, the shift of US retirement savings from 'defined benefit' (DB) plans to 'defined contributions' (DC) plans has spurred the growth of new market competitors such as low-cost collective ...

Alternative goes mainstream as long-only dies

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2007
... make meaningful allocations to alternative assets and absolute-return products. In addition, a growing number of defined benefit and insurance funds are turning to the bond and derivatives markets to implement Liability Driven Investment (LDI) strategies." ...

Super SA upgrades to insure those working longer

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2007
... upgrades include extending the death and TPD cover from 60 to 65 years old and for those members in the closed defined benefit schemes access to this cover. Income protection insurance has been extended from 55 to 60 years old and the benefit period ...

Qantas books ticket with Russell

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2006
... five years, Qantas Super's investment returns are top 20. Qantas Super is one of few remaining private sector defined benefit super funds, a legacy of their public sector origins. According to Rainmaker, around half the fund's assets are DB with the ...

Joining a DB fund the ultimate choice

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2006
The forced demise of defined benefit (DB) super because of fund consolidation and a changing workforce has unfairly cast DB funds as last century thinking. But that totally misses the point. Ann Byrne, Unisuper chief executive officer, said, "People ...

Bravura partners with Statewide for super development

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2006
... administration platform. SuperB is one of the modules on the Sonata platform and was built to facilitate the needs of defined benefit, defined contribution, third party record keepers, government agencies and provident fund managers. It assists users ...

SnowyHydro snow job?

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2006
... Government, nothwithstanding it also has a $55 million unfunded superannuation liability due to its legacy with the defined benefit PSS and CSS Commonwealth super funds. NSW Finance Minister, John Della Bosca, speaking on ABC television, has unsurprisingly ...

Hewitt eyes investment consulting

... superannuation fund. "With BHP, we do a lot of strategic investment consulting. Most of that has got to do with their defined benefit assets, which is a model they picked up from the UK," said Nerida Seccombe, Hewitt's recently appointed head of superannuation ...

Super SA partners with IFFP to offer commission-free advice

... we're used to dealing with complicated benefit structures. Quite a number of funds that we provide services to are defined benefit structures so we provide advice on those as well as on straight accumulation models," he said. Given the scale of the new ...

DB, healthcare costs blow out US valuations: AXA Rosenburg

... fund liabilities are treated is also a big factor. According to AXA Rosenburg, only 10 per cent of US corporate defined benefit plans are over-funded and this means they are drawing capital reserves from company balance sheets. It's even worse when you ...