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Super fees jump triple inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2007
Rainmaker has released their 2007 super and retirement fund survey, showing fees have jumped 8 per cent, or nearly three times the inflation rate. But the continuing performance bull run is distracting funds more focused on expanding their investments ...

New Jersey Govt spends teachers' future fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
The New Jersey Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund seemed in dire trouble last week as it was revealed funds destined for retirement funding had been diverted to cover more immediate expenditure, in a theme echoing some of the recent debate around Australia's ...

Alternative low-cost retirement funds on rise in US

Employers in the US are turning to unregulated, low-cost investment vehicles called 'collective funds' and regulated 'retirement services' funds to house their staff's pension instead of using traditional managed funds. According to the latest 'industry ...

Perpetual repatriates UK pension benefits

NICK OLIVER  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2007
... transfer their UK pension benefits without incurring a hefty tax bill," said Wang. Perpetual's Investor Choice Retirement Fund, which includes the Perpetual WealthFocus Super Plan and Perpetual WealthFocus Pension Plan options, received QROPS registration ...

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 ...

Catholic Super overhauls property mandates

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2006
The Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund (CSRF) has revised its property investments resulting in $100 million of new property mandates being awarded. Lend Lease was allocated $52 million, with $25 million to be invested in the Core Plus Property ...

MIR scores $100m from Catholic Super and Retirement

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
MIR has secured a $100 million mandate from the Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund (CSRF) to be invested in the MIR Australian Equities Fund. Existing CSRF Australian equities mandates with Perpetual and Maple-Brown Abbott will be realigned ...

Business doesn't buy compulsory healthcare: Watson Wyatt

While Australian companies are happy to contribute to their employees' retirement needs through compulsory super, four out of five draw the line on compulsory healthcare, according to an Asia-Pacific study released today. The findings were from the ...

SERF awards MLIM $85m portable alpha mandate

The $1.5 billion Stevedoring Employees Retirement Fund (SERF) has awarded Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) an $85 million institutional mandate to invest in a portable alpha strategy with a twist. Under the mandate, MLIM's US based portable ...

Superpartners replaces Weaven

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2006
... its recent history the major events have included winning the Hesta account followed last year by the Australian Retirement Fund. They are big gains and took the group from clearly number two in industry fund administration to number one," he said. Beanland ...