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Quant and quals brave the bear

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2008
Quantitative versus qualitative managers - who's been battered worse amid the global financial crisis? According to two industry experts, both have had their share of joy and pain surviving the second half of 2008. Rohan Walsh, partner and fund manager ...

Westscheme heeds APRA comments

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2008
Westscheme chief executive Howard Rosario said the super fund changed its member choice cash option after APRA told trustees that members choosing the option assume their funds are invested in cash, not 'enhanced cash' instruments. ING Investment Management ...

Perennial bears the bear

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
Fund manager Perennial turns to history to give financial planners cogent tips on how to ride the bear market and even better, beat the doom-and-gloomsters. Any way you describe the events of the last two months would be nothing short of an understatement. ...

No instant gratification

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
'Rome was not built in a day.' Wall Street's behaviour over the past few days reflects the GenXers and GenYers culture of instant gratification. Flick a switch and dinner is cooked, the music plays, moving images play on the screen. Click on the mouse ...

AMP saves more in pension

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
More than 800,000 super members under AMP's Flexible Lifetime Super can now save as much as $110,000 more for their retirement by using AMP's transition to retirement (TTR) strategy alongside the group's newly-launched Pension Refresh option. AMP has ...

AUSCOAL switches to weekly

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
AUSCOAL Super joins the growing list of super funds that have shifted from monthly to weekly crediting rates and, in a parallel move, the fund will also update investment choice switches from monthly to weekly. As of the latest financial year, investment ...

NAB Group Super axes cash plus

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
NAB Group Super has morphed its cash plus option into a pure cash option - closing the strategy's previous exposure to fixed interest, Australian shares and property. The board Trustee's decision to change the corporate fund's cash plus option into ...

Weekly switching for BOC Super

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
Corporate super fund BOC Super joins the growing list of super funds that are vastly improving their administration, with a new system that updates 'investment option' changes from monthly to weekly. In the past, BOC Super implements switches between ...

Central Banks hold fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2008
The week of central watching finished with the Reserve Bank of Australia, the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England opting to hold monetary policy steady this month. Fixed income markets rallied overnight following unchanged ...

Account switching is too much trouble

In a parallel for consumer complaints about the difficulty in changing super funds, a new survey has shown that a majority of people think switching banks is too much of a hassle. Fifty-four per cent of the 2000 respondents to a Research International ...