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ASFA's goals for 2009

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
The Henry Tax Review, APRA fund returns data and superannuation data exchange number among the top projects for ASFA this year. Speaking at an Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) lunch yesterday, Pauline Vamos, chief executive of ...

Top and bottom super performance differ by 36pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
... property, infrastructure, hedge funds and private equity determined where they would be in the league tables. For example, the top 10 funds such as Military Super, MTAA, REST and Hostplus all had substantial weightings in unlisted assets. In contrast ...

Former BHP chief makes history

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
... Mr Dhanabala, the company's chairman. According to Bloomberg, Goodyear was first identified as a possible candidate for the top office two years ago. Goodyear is best known for transforming debt-ridden BHP company back in 1999 into the world's largest ...

Basile joins nabInvest

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
... Lend Lease Investment Management investment director and manager. Basile will manage nabInvest's business strategy to build a top performing investment management division. He starts his role next week. Garry Mulcahy, nabInvest chief executive, said ...

BT unveils manager line up

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
... retained and leveraged the teams' existing strengths," said head of investment solutions, Patrick Farrell. Investment Solutions 'top-down' investment strategy, taking into account a range of macro, socio-economic and geopolitical factors, will be led ...

HCL pushes governance practices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... services and integration services to financial service providers and banks. The IT firm has a Sydney office and has eight of the top 10 financial institutions as clients.

Master trusts and industry funds drive risk growth

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... growth, the research found. Overall, the total life risk insurance market, in annual premium income terms, is expected to top $26 million per annum in the next 15 years, representing 9.4 per cent per annum growth.

Contributions, efficiencies still matter

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
... advisers have a legitimate role to play in superannuation, "none of that would be a problem if people were allocated into the top performing funds". "Not only do retail commissions distort the market towards poorly performing funds, it forces a focus ...

CFS pumps up ESG investing

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
Colonial First State is making ESG research one of its top priorities this year. CFS, which is one of the supporters of VicSuper and HESTA's new ESG Research Australia initiative, said it had been actively supporting these issues for a number of years ...

BT Global Macro gains three stars

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... and inter-sector bets between asset classes. Instead, the actively managed fund aims to generate alpha from market neutral top down strategies. Simon Scott, Standard & Poor's fund services analyst, said the fund's team is appropriately qualified and ...