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Challenger retail annuity sales up 8%, profit down

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
Challenger annuity sales were up 8% during the first half of the 2014-2015 financial year, but net profit after tax was down, the half year report showed. Annuity sales reached $2.1 billion, of which $1.6 billion were retail annuity sales, up 8% since ...

Performance competition returning to default super

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2015
The SelectingSuper MySuper rolling 12 month performance index holding steady on 8.3% during October to December masks something more subtle - the return of performance competition into superannuation and the strong debut of life stage investing. SelectingSuper's ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after falls or flat performances on international bourses ahead of the conclusion of an emergency eurozone meeting on the Greek crisis. At 0858 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract ...

Plato hires senior quant analyst from SSgA

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... growth for the fund manager. Funds under management (FUM) increased by more than 50% in 2014 to top $1.3 billion. Performance has also been strong across Plato's product suite relative to the market. Plato's zero tax income strategy, the Plato Australian ...

ACSI targets a third of women on boards

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... "ACSI's motivation to act in this space is the strong evidence of the links between board gender diversity and financial performance. We have been pleased with recent improvements on gender diversity, but these come from a very low base. Our data show ...

Consumers need super default safety net: ISA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... outcomes." "Workers whose superannuation contributions were placed in workplace default funds have achieved better performance on average over the longer term than workers who made active choices about where to place these contributions, or were sold ...

Future Fund smashes its performance target in 2014

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... December compared to the 8.3% delivered by the SelectingSuper Workplace default super fund index. The massive out-performance dwarfs the impact of the Future Fund's zero taxation rate and low operating costs due it stakeholder structure and instead points ...

Market Wrap AM

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
... $57.23 and $51.56 respectively at one point. In local news on Wednesday, the Australian Industry Group releases its Performance of Services Index for January. In equities news, Echo Entertainment is expected to post half year earnings results. The Australian ...

Retail funds still unable to match industry fund popularity

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
Industry superannuation funds remain unbeaten when it comes to member satisfaction with their financial performance, a Roy Morgan survey confirms. Industry funds have been ahead of retail funds every month since the Roy Morgan Single Source survey began ...

LaSalle appoints head of funds from Charter Hall

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... head of funds management for Australia. Chris Forbes will be based in Sydney and will be responsible for driving fund performance of the LaSalle Australia Core Plus Fund (LACPF) and the LaSalle Australia Club Investments Trust (LACIT). Forbes joins LaSalle ...