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Standard Life sales spike after global expansion

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013
... philosophy' and team based approach continues to deliver innovative investment solutions and strong long term investment performance for our ever increasing number of global clients." The company's operating profit before tax also hit a new record and ...

Super fund fortunes shift on FX exposure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
... funds, with the recent weakness of the Australian dollar and lower hedge ratios contributing to their strong investment performance in the last year." NAB's survey, carried out every two years, also found a modest rise in superannuation fund exposure ...

Super fund returns as good as it gets

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
... result is based on preliminary analysis of Rainmaker's June 2013 SelectingSuper Workplace super fund default investment performance survey that shows this year's 15% expected average return follows the average 0.5% in 2011-12, the 8.6% in 2010-11 and ...

Class Super gains ground in SMSF software race

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
... clients," Lesh said. "Accounting firms may wish to provide SelfWealth to their clients to help them improve investment performance. Financial planning firms may wish to use SelfWealth to compare the performance of their advisors with the SMSF community." ...

Super set for best year since 2007

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
... SelectingSuper surveys. This result means that since the GFC super funds have delivered 34% in cumulative investment performance or 7.6% pa which is far in excess of the returns members would have achieved if they switched into cash term deposits, noted ...

UniSuper awarded MySuper licence

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
... Account members. "Given the investment strategy of our 'Balanced' option, with its consistently strong investment performance, and our existing insurance offering, already met the criteria for MySuper, we did not need to develop a new product," UniSuper ...

BlackRock head of multi-manager departs

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
... achieving strong business momentum, delivering an even better client experience alongside solid, consistent investment performance for our clients."

StatewideSuper withdrawn from SelectingSuper assessment

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2013
... program where that information is publicly available. He said Rainmaker's research program encompasses investment performance, fees, group insurance, extra services, governance and product design. Their most recent report into super fund group insurance ...

APRA finalises Stronger Super reporting standards

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
... decade. However, additional reporting standards are yet to be released covering Reporting Standard SRS 702.0 Investment Performance and Reporting Standard SRS 703.0 Fees Disclosed. APRA further expects that these two reporting standards, along with draft ...

Retirement objective is income not performance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013
... Contribution Practice who was in Australia this week to lead a PIMCO retirement incomes roundtable, said, "investment performance is often the least important factor for plan sponsors when designing their retirement schemes." Building investment portfolios ...