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Higher fees, more cover: AustralianSuper

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... services," the fund said in a member newsletter. AustralianSuper's decision to raise the fees comes at a point where market returns have fallen for the first time in years. This in turn has prompted many super funds to improve client servicing - from ...

Van Eyk enhances risk ratings

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... understanding of the nature of asset sector and investment strategy risks undertaken by fund managers in seeking positive returns," said Nigel Douglas, van Eyk head of investment research. This enhancement follows Stephen van Eyk, the firm's managing ...

Reverse core satellite approach: van Eyk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... Stephen van Eyk, van Eyk Research managing director, said the next two years would be characterised by "sub par [investment] returns", which means investors should consider a core active approach. "When world growth was going strongly all boats rose ...

US pensions fight for trust

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... fiduciary obligations. "Adding constraints that might undermine the ability of public pension plans to generate investment returns to fund retirement benefits may decrease diversification and add risk to the plans," noted a statement by CalPERS. The ...

NAB gambles on its IFS model

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... conditions". The UK banks and some "non-franchise" nabCapital activities (such as CDO origination) are rated "unsatisfactory returns today in tough conditions". Despite the UK's poor rating Clyne said he was not planning to sell it. He said the UK banks ...

Three firms wound up by ASIC

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
... September 2005 the four companies raised in the order of $9.5 million from approximately 150 investors who were offered returns of up to 80 per cent per annum. The majority of these investors were operating self managed superannuation funds and were ...

AUI opens unlisted property fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... interest rate environment opens up a number of opportunities for property owners which can not only boost a fund's income returns but also provide managers with greater flexibility when it comes to expanding, improving or acquiring more properties," ...

Return of the hedge funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... managers were flat during January, growth managers lost 98 basis points and value and opportunistic funds posted positive returns. Locally, Australian hedge funds also started the year well with almost half of the funds on the Australian Fund Monitors ...

UniSuper wins Investment Stewardship award

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... of running the fund - can add value for our members. And at every level, we seek to deliver competitive risk-adjusted returns to our members," said St. John. The 2009 award criteria also gave special recognition to responsible investment practices and ...

Rising above the average: Fiducian

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
... his investment team showed them the door. "We had a lot of pressure to introduce those kind of products because of the returns they were getting, we even spoke to people with five-star ratings but if the investment's not transparent enough, we're not ...