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Super funds out-perform TDs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
Super funds delivering 12 month returns of 6.8% are now almost two-thirds higher than their cash term deposit counterparts. SelectingSuper has just reported that the workplace default option index for the 12 months to end August 2012 skyrocketed in ...

Two execs depart Telstra Super

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... benchmark of 0.5% causing a fall in ranking to 57, although recent rankings have been volatile due to swings in monthly returns. The fund's three-year return figure on the same default option was 7.1% p.a. putting it at 19 th place, while the seven-year ...

Super funds line up for Sevior

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... details of any potential mandate. Australia's biggest super fund also cited its confidence in Sevior's ability to generate returns for members, after his time at Perpetual. "We have experience with him, and he had a strong track record," the spokesperson ...

Australian super funds, world's third best

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
Australia's super funds recorded the third best returns net of inflation in the OECD despite having the highest weighting to equities, reveals new research from the OECD. Denmark was the top performing pension fund nation during calendar year 2011 earning ...

Greater uptake in global equities: Zurich

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... Australians soon to face retirement. "Advisers know that staying in cash over the long run is not going to deliver the returns or income investors need for a comfortable retirement," Noble said. The survey found that 54% of advisers are expecting single ...

Innovative income fund pays dividends

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
Since its inception a year ago specifically to maximise returns for zero tax payers such as pension funds and charities, Plato Investment Management Limited (Plato) has delivered an attractive 9.5% income yield (inclusive of franking credits) within ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
... European bourses as confidence from the Federal Reserve's stimulus measures fade and concern over the euro zone's debt returns. At 0805 AEST on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract was down two points at 4,396. In economic news on ...

Indexing reaches all time high

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... indexing growth trend," the report said. "The push by ETFs, that have held their $5 billion in FUM despite the lacklustre returns of the ASX, just reinforces this expectation; these ETFs now hold the equivalent of 9% of indexed Australian equities, the ...

ANZ sells mortgage business

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... remainder of its holding in Visa Inc for $224 million, as industry wide capital balance requirements force the bank to manage returns to shareholders in the most "capital effective" way. It also announced that it was undertaking a review of its asset ...

A stock market rally could get Obama over the line

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
... good for business, over the past 12 elections spanning 48 years, the S&P 500 has in fact delivered higher average annual returns under Democratic governments. That's according to a recent paper from Tom Stevenson, investment director at Fidelity Worldwide ...