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Lower fees or lose advantage: ACTU

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
The ACTU has called on industry funds to keep lowering their fees or risk losing one of their key competitive advantages over retail funds. Tim Lyons, assistant secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions said one of the top challenges facing ...

Van Eyk completes China review

NEWS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... industrialisation and urbanisation of the inland areas will drive China's financial markets over the coming years, the rising middle class will boost consumption and many Chinese companies have stronger balance sheets when compared with their Western ...

Assets that thrive under pressure

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
Fixed interest, hedge funds and indexed investments were the top three asset classes based on growth in funds under management (FUM), according to Rainmaker research. Figures show that these three asset classes grew their FUM between June 2007 and June ...

PAS supports Paceline

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
Professional Associations Super hopes to raise $60,000 for heart research, joining the list of super funds helping to secure funds for charities affecting retirees. The Paceline ride involves 20 riders and 2 support crew traveling 1100km from Adelaide ...

Rise of the new rich

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... providing fresh evidence of the shift of seismic wealth from the West to the East. According to the study, the 'rising' middle class accounts for US$32 trillion of global wealth, and around 60 per cent of them live in Asia. For example, China's wealth ...

PAS taps direct property, shifts bonds

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... avoids high exposures in unlisted assets, due to the fund's relatively small size and high fees associated with the asset class, said Kessell. The fund, however, had previously invested in Australian direct property and Kessell said he viewed Australian ...

Good vintage yields strong returns

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010

Great Southern investors target BABL

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
Around 2,000 Great Southern investors launched a class action in the Federal Court to recover losses from bankers, including Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited (BABL), which lent them money to invest in the schemes. Investors have asked the Federal Court ...

Vanguard launches property ETF

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
... company's suite of Aussie ETF products, which recently surpassed a combined $200 million in assets. The ETF will be a share class of Vanguard's Australian Property Securities Index Fund, which was established in October 1998 and currently has over $2 ...

SimCorp launches "office of the future"

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010
... technology leverages SimCorp Dimension's existing audit trail functionality and incorporates such features as broad asset class coverage, theoretical valuation models and the decomposition of funds, index derivatives and other structured products. The ...