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Large funds outperform: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2012
... size has a positive impact on the performance of not- for-profit superannuation funds, which is evident both in gross returns and in expenses," noted the study's author, Dr James Richard Cummings. But while no scale relationship was confirmed among retail ...

Inaugural responsible investing platform launched

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2012
... increasingly seeking to make investment decisions that take account of wider societal implications, rather than just investment returns," said Diego Del Rosso, senior manager - strategic partners and alliances at Bendigo Wealth. "By bringing responsible ...

Benchmarks allow funds to abdicate responsibility: Future Fund

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2012
... going counter cyclical to that," Neal said. "That's about making sure that we put risk in the portfolio when risk-adjusted returns are high and taking it out when they are low." Neal said it was self evident to a certain extent that the only thing that ...

Calls for super industry to up focus on beta

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2012
... when superannuation is a long-term activity, and that needs to be corrected in the way funds are assessed in terms of returns and mandates. "In our world we've got choice and we're accumulation funds. Those in particular accelerate this view that people ...

Five Oceans wins global equities mandate

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2012
... Five Oceans was chosen for three main reasons, including its high conviction portfolio that seeks to produce positive returns and manage risk over the long term, its "demonstrated effective use" of derivatives and hedging strategies to manage risk, and ...

Super funds should refocus on fixed interest

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2012
... assets under perform or hedging for some unforeseen event. "Increasingly you should be thinking about fixed interest as returns seeking objective, bear in mind that fixed interest has been one of the best performing asset classes in the last ten years. ...

Unions, AIST hit back at Abbott comments

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... for the Opposition Leader." O'Connor said that based on the latest APRA performance data, not-for-profit funds averaged returns of 6.2% per annum over the last eight years, compared to average returns in the retail sector of 4.6% per annum, a difference ...

Gonski appointed new chair of Future Fund

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... assets for both the Future Fund and the Nation-building Funds. According to government figures, the Future Fund averaged returns of 4.2% last year. The new appointments will become effective as of April 3.

PIMCO lands OnePath advice mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... assets." PIMCO said it wants to bring fixed income as an asset class back into planner focus, a class PIMCO said whose returns are underestimated. In its survey of financial advisers, PIMCO found 65% of respondents assigned returns of 6% or less to the ...

CBA, NAB joins Class Super

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... feeds allow SMSF administrators to perform complex fund processing, including fund compilation, reconciliation and tax returns in hours, not weeks," said Rajarshi Ray, Class Super chief executive. SMSFs account for $420 billion, or around 40%, of the ...