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UK pensions seek to award $400m mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
Australian fund managers with international equities expertise should pay attention to three UK pension funds, which are looking to dish out more than $400 million in international shares and index-linked gilts mandates. England's Falkirk Council is ...

Bigger doesn't always mean better

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
Having a large portfolio with hundreds of companies doesn't always generate the best diversification as the GFC has proven - sparking a time to revisit concentrated portfolio strategies to reap better returns, said Aberdeen Asset Management. For Andrew ...

Not bullish enough, maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
Have you heard the latest gossip? Yes, that one. Australia's economy has now left the gloom and doom of the global financial crisis behind and is now walking into the gloom and doom of rising interest rates. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will ...

Capital protection should be core to satellite

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
The core-satellite approach to investing can drive even better returns if used together with a tailor-made capital protection strategy, said an asset design consultant for planners and SMSFs. Tony Rumble, founder of Alpha Structured Investments, designed ...

Lutheran Super enters pension market

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2009
Corporate fund Lutheran Super has introduced a new account-based pension for its members. Lutheran Super, which had $248 million in assets under management at the end of March according to Rainmaker Information, now offers members an account based pension ...

Cooper Review calls for governance submissions

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
The Cooper Review has fired its starting gun when it called for submissions in response to its "Phase One" issues paper on governance. The Super System Review, headed by ASIC deputy chairman Jeremy Cooper, today called for submissions following the ...

Suncorp FUM down, life risk profits up

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
Suncorp's funds under management fell almost $800 million to $23 billion but the firm was buoyed by life risk profits which rose 13 per cent to $87 million. The firm's full year profit results found the funds management division was hit by bad markets ...

Wait no more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
Death by a thousand cuts. Or more accurately -- death by a thousand rebounds. This must be what the bears are feeling each time equities bounce back from a fall. Equity markets are volatile even in the best of times. That is a certitude. For each and ...

Sweet and sour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2009
Shanghaied! This is what those "nervy nellies" might be feeling after seeing Chinese equities rebound more sharply just as fast and by more as it has fallen. China's Shanghai Composite Index jumped by 4.5 per cent yesterday (sweet), erasing the previous ...

APRA launches data revolution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2009
APRA has released its fund level returns data and in the process launched a revolution in the extent of data now available for researchers investigating superannuation. Data now available includes, for each fund, details of what they provide to the ...