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Instos change mandate strategies

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
The mandate hiring patterns of super funds and investors were on show in the latest Mercer report, which highlighted a renewed focus on currency management, the awarding of larger mandates and the growing popularity of alternative asset managers. According ...

Retail spending is not slowing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2008
The economy continues to send mixed signals with the latest retail trade figures showing that despite confidence falling and concerns over credit rising we are yet to slow down our spending. According to the ABS, the trend estimate of retail turnover ...

Retirement liabilities dwarf assets six-fold

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
Worldwide pension savings might have doubled in the 10 years to 2006 to US$24 trillion but retirement liabilities are estimated to be more than six times that, reveals the State Street Corporation pension industry Vision Report. This disparity illustrates ...

China's pension to dwarf Australia

MICHAEL HOBBS AND CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2007
It will take China some ten to twelve years to match the size of Australia's $1.3 trillion plus funds management industry but once it does, China's pension industry will "rocket past ours", according to Peter Promnitz, head of Asia Pacific for Mercer ...

NZ managed funds hit A$56 billion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2007
New Zealand managed funds assets have reached A$56 billion, according to the Reserve Bank of NZ, after limping forward just 9 per cent during the year to end March 2007 helped by the NZ Stock Market that returned only 11 per cent. The figures do not ...

Fund advertising is essential: Retailers Assoc

The Australian Retailers Association, the employer group that is the principal sponsor of the public offer industry fund REST, has told the Senate Super Inquiry that post-choice super funds have no choice but to advertise. "Advertising is an essential ...

Morningstar to buy Ibbotson

Morningstar Research is to acquire Ibbotson Associates, potentially transforming the group from minor player to major league in the US managed retirement accounts market. In an all-cash deal of just over $80 million for Ibbotson, Morningstar could take ...

Colonial First State top quartile world manager: Watson Wyatt

Colonial First State was ranked as the largest Australian asset manager for 2004, according to a Watson Wyatt survey of the top 500 fund managers from across the world. With assets under management of more than $100 billion, Colonial ranked 123rd or ...

Australians shifting investments to bank accounts: survey

Paul Cully Australians have deposited $76 billion into bank accounts during the last year, dwarfing the $47 billion they have pumped into investment vehicles, according to research by Rainmaker Information. The figures suggest that the desperate share ...
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