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AMP adds listed infra to SMSF Suite

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... infrastructure such as airports, toll roads and seaports. Since its inception in 2010 the $1 billion fund has delivered average returns of 17.36% per annum after fees. AMP Capital head of SMSF Tim Keegan said: "We have added the AMP Capital Global Listed ...

Throw out relative performance tables: Finsia

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... proposes the industry instead adopt measures that express fund performance in terms of retirement adequacy. Money-weighted returns, maximum drawdown (in wealth terms), terminal wealth (i.e. account balance in dollar terms), projected annuity income (i.e. ...

HOSTPLUS to buy $600m Woolworths properties

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014
... lease structure, provides attractive investment attributes that align with our primary objective of delivering stable returns to our members." Woolworths chief executive Grant O'Brien, meanwhile, said the sale was consistent with Woolworths' preference ...

Super fees drop as fund war rolls on

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
... said. Retail funds are lowering their fees and threatening the perception that industry funds have lower costs and higher returns. NGS Super chief executive Anthony Rodwell-Ball admitted that industry funds "are going to struggle" to compete with the ...

Advertising won't grow membership, super funds told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014
... customers." She said the top factors were a fund's trustworthiness, followed by value for money, fees and charges and investment returns. However, she said that big advertising campaigns do translate to brand awareness if not to fund growth. Both industry ...

Super returns dip but still strong

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... at end May. Rainmaker, which conducts the research for SelectingSuper, noted that three year super fund average annual returns at end July were 10.1% pa, five year average annual returns were 8.6% pa and 10 year average annual returns were 6.9% pa. Not-for-profit ...

GSA an affordable alternative to DLAs: APRA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... will... reflect the significant uncertainty over the long time horizon in respect of future investment (and reinvestment) returns, mortality improvement rates and, where relevant, the inflation rate and the cost of capital required to be held against ...

Perpetual launches Global Share Fund on profit rise

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... equities is something our clients have asked us to consider." During its incubation phase the strategy has delivered gross returns of 22.9% pa over the three years to 30 June 2014, which is 6.3% pa above the benchmark. Perpetual said this performance ...

Super contributions back to pre-crisis levels

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... year. A This compares to growth of just $1.8 billion (2.1%) in the 12 months to June 2013. "A second year of double-digit returns, bipartisan support for no negative changes to superannuation and improved economic conditions in Europe and the US have ...

IFM warns against foreign ownership of infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... funds. On this latter point it recommended, first, that "superannuation funds offer their members a premium to their normal returns if they agree not to switch funds or investment options for a set period of time." Second, it recommended an "encouragement ...