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Challenger launches Bentham

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
... statement from Challenger, all three funds returned more than 40 per cent over the twelve months to 30 April 2010. These returns were underpinned by Quin and his team's skills to manage credit investments not readily available to Australian investors ...

AustralianSuper and AMP fight for super's most wanted

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
... five super fund of choice, the survey found three key factors that would prompt fund members to switch: better investment returns (65.1 per cent), better fees (54.2 per cent) and better member service (31.6 per cent). AustralianSuper already has the ...

Great Southern investors fight back

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
... disclose key material facts about the sustainability of what were sold as long-term projects, which were to yield attractive returns for investors. Directors or former directors of the relevant Great Southern companies, who are also being sued in the ...

Dimensional wins $45m Aussie eq mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
... Shares Survey over a 10-year period. Since inception in July 1999, the strategy has delivered after-tax, pre-liquidation returns to superannuation funds of 13.01 per cent per annum, above the 9.35 per cent of the benchmark S&P/ASX-300 index, said Jim ...

Western Asset seeks ops in volatile markets

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
... sectors and individual securities, it also has the ability to be short duration, with a range of +/- 10 years, to maximise returns regardless of the interest rate outlook. The target return is USD 8-10 per cent p.a. over three years with a target volatility ...

Fund fees not coming down: Cooper

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
... provided to the Panel that backed the assertion that higher costs correlated in any meaningful way with long-term investment returns, said Cooper. The timing may have been coincidental but Cooper's remarks came hours after industry association the Investment ...

Top ESG infra stocks post better returns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
... possible 15, with four being a low ESG score and 13 representing a highly rated stock. Overlaying that data with total returns for the three years to May this year, it found infrastructure companies that scored high ESG ratings tended to perform better ...

Aussie shares beat property over the long term

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
Australian shares delivered higher returns, after costs and taxes, than residential property over the past two decades, a new report shows. The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) commissioned investment firm Russell Investments to measure the performance ...

New performance reporting standards for retail funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
... to performance figures gross of any ongoing and advice fees. The objective is to facilitate comparability of super fund returns across sectors, especially between not-for-profit funds and retail funds. A particular focus however is to better reflect ...

GESB hires two investment strategists

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
... and we are building a team that can continue to meet these challenges and contribute to the delivery of sound investment returns over the long term for our 315,000 members," said Sharon Hicks, chief investment officer at GESB.