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Demand rises for Aussie bonds and cash: AMP

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... capital said today. Ben Harrop, AMP Capital's Head of Retail Distribution, leads a team that manages $38 billion in retail funds originated through financial planners. Harrop told financial standard that investment trends had turned towards funds with ...

Customers rate SMSFs the best

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
... have had higher levels of satisfaction with the performance of their funds, compared to customers of the Big Six Retail Funds," noted the Roy Morgan Research report. "After the global financial crisis satisfaction with the superannuation performance ...

PC to review how defaults appointed to Awards

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
... likely to make the way funds are appointed as defaults in Industrial Awards more open it is unlikely it will result in retail funds taking the place of not-for-profit funds. David Whiteley, chief executive of the Industry Super Network, said yesterday ...

NAB grows FUM despite tough times

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
... markets helped lift their funds under management by $7.7 billion over the year to March. When the figure for total retail funds excluding cash is included, the total funds under management and administration figure rises to $208.2 billion, an increase ...

Super fund returns fall again to 5 per cent

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... funds who favour the asset class, he added. Low share market returns explains why the gap between not-for-profit and retail funds increased to 240 basis points. This gap being more than twice the fee differential between these segments means that it's ...

Super fund returns fall again to 5 per cent

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... funds who favour the asset class, he added. Low share market returns explains why the gap between not-for-profit and retail funds increased to 240 basis points. This gap being more than twice the fee differential between these segments means that it's ...

Flare up over MoneySmart

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... FPA. "If the debate is to be had around asset based fees then it should be expanded to include industry funds and retail funds management which all charge asset based fees." The FPA said that advisers have a variety of charging models including a combination ...

Super assets reach $1.32tr

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... system. The headline figures show that SMSFs continue to dominate, accounting for 32 per cent of assets, followed by retail funds with 27.5 per cent of total assets. Industry funds ranked third holding 18.7 per cent of total assets, public sector funds ...

CFS slashes entry bar to wholesale platform

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... wholesale and retail. It's got enormous power and cost efficiency." The platform, which handles the bulk of Australia's retail funds, has been technologically streamlined to reduce adviser pen-pushing. "There's too much paper across the board," Bissaker ...

Perennial tactical move pays off

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
... is that it will move in and out of fixed interest and cash, and high yield securities," said Brian Thomas, head of retail funds management, Perennial. Thomas said advisers are very interested in the concept because it offers the best of both worlds. ...