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HOSTPLUS improves insurance, maintains fees

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
... until at least January 2012, remaining at the same rate as 2004 when the freeze was introduced. This makes the super fund a rare example of a fund that has kept fees unchanged for at least seven years. "Few funds could say they have not moved their fees ...

Centric Wealth gears up for acquisitions

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2010
... planners keen to join the group, thanks to big league M&As bubbling in the market. Mergers such as AMP and AXA's present rare opportunities to non-bank aligned financial planning dealer groups to beef up their acquisitions, said John McMurdo, chief executive ...

Rare opportunities in US real estate

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
Australian super funds could be missing out on a once in a lifetime opportunity to add attractively priced, high yielding US property to their portfolios. So says Sentinel Real Estate Corporation, which has approximately US$4.5 billion in US property ...

Money, money, money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010

Pengana launches Australian Market Neutral fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010

Commercial property sales rebound: CBRE

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
... property consultants said the Australian story continued to be a compelling one for foreign investors. "Australia has the rare combination in the world at the moment of stability and transparency, coupled with a strong economic outlook," he said. "In ...

AIST research exposes flaws in asset-based fee model

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... preclude the introduction of fixed dollar fees or similar structures. This is because consistently outperforming managers are rare and will attract a price premium, the report found, in which case better designed performance fees may be the best option. ...

Core and satellite approach not bulletproof: study

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
Combining a passive core with aggressive satellite managers is at long odds to succeed, according to the findings of a new study. The research, conducted by Ankura Capital, has raised serious questions over the suitability of the multi-manager approach ...

Mandatory trustee pay disclosure draws debate

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
Proposed trustee governance reforms will fix many of the regulatory gaps in the system, but Cooper Review panelist Sandy Grant questions adopting 'listed company' type governance measures, such as mandatory pay disclosure, just for the sake of having ...

Treasury bounces back to pre-crisis FUM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... The group's FUM increased by $3.7 billion to $14.7 billion for the year to June, near its June 2007 FUM of $15.6 billion. RARE Infrastructure, Orion Asset Management and Trilogy Global Advisors were the group's biggest contributors. RARE's FUM increased ...