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AXA super tops league tables

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
Amid the worst super fund returns on record, AXA Australia has broken through the field as the surprise top performer with a stunning positive 4 per cent from its Tailored Super and Simple Super employer funds, almost 11 per cent ahead of the market ...

Astarra opens to retail investors

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
Astarra Funds Management's balanced, conservative and growth multi manager funds are now available to retail investors for the first time in more than a decade. All three diversified funds have all been ranked in the top quartile over one, three, five ...

IFSA slams proposed default fund

ALEX DUNNIN AND RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
... Livanas. "If [we have] an index fund then who will create efficiency in the market? If the index players start crowding the active managers, who's going to set up the [market] prices, given the index fund is rear looking?" Livanas believes that a single ...

Russell and Mercer lead MM pack

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
Lonsec's annual review of the multi manager sector resulted in only two of out of 16 managers achieving a 'highly recommended' rating. Russell and Mercer were awarded 'highly recommended' ratings, while BT, AXA, Challenger, ipac, Optimix, MLC and Skandia/Intech ...

FT snags $200m fixed income mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
... Templeton Fixed Income Group. Franklin Templeton Investments' Global Aggregate portfolio is built around a diversified set of active management positions that the firm claims has the potential to generate attractive returns over a full market cycle. ...

Ex-IOOF exec joins Bellwether

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... of Bellwether Group and has held senior executive positions at HSBC. Bellwether Partner was set up in 2004 and uses an active bottom up growth investment strategy across its Australian equities portfolios.

FPA backs 'advice within super' review

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
The industry group representing majority of the financial planners in the country welcomed the government's call for a review of the superannuation system. The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has said it will actively participate in ...

Ex-Allianz Global retail head joins S&P

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
Ratings house Standard & Poor's Fund Services has appointed Leanne Milton as its new head of fund research. Milton will report to the head of fund services, Mark Hoven and will assume primary analytical and management responsibility for S&P's Fund Research ...

SELECT guides investors to managed futures

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
SELECT Asset Management highlights the diversification benefits and potential to generate strong returns in down equity markets of managed futures in a new information guide for retail investors. According to the firm's The Case for Managed Futures ...

Proactive planners ease client concerns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
... and financial planner, said it was an ideal time to talk to clients and reaffirm their financial goals. "We're very pro-active with clients and where they're at in the achievement of their outcomes and goals. At this stage I would say [volatile equity ...