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Spoilt for investment choice

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... at the Rainmaker Group, said that in workplace super, not for profit funds now average 8 investment choices and master trusts average 55 investment choices. For personal super, not for profit funds average 8 choices and master trusts average 91 choices ...

UBS property fund gets three stars

S&P RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
... the fund's strategy changed to include a concentrated 15 per cent strategic allocation to global real estate investment trusts (REITs), accessing UBS's global real estate securities (GRES) capability. UBS's property securities team has experienced successive ...

CommInsure completes business restructure, appoints two GMs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2010
... wholesale life business provides risk products and services to mass market customers through industry funds, corporates, master trusts and platforms. Meanwhile, as business services general manager, Browne will oversee strategy, marketing, distribution ...

Central plank of Cooper Review is MySuper

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... Government funds hold 87 per cent of assets in their default option, industry funds hold 72 per cent and corporate master trusts have the least amount of assets within the default option at 38 per cent. To adopt the MySuper model, the government would ...

Ban insurance commissions in super: Cooper

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... reaching up to 35 per cent. To put it into context, these commission payments are a major reason why group rates from master trusts are up to 50 per cent higher than group rates from not-for-profit funds, according to Rainmaker Information data. The ...

Bookmakers fund adopts liquidity strategy

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
... divided into two parts. The first part will contain illiquid assets such as direct mortgage loans and unlisted mortgage trusts, which are currently held in the balanced investment strategies. Investors in this strategy will not be permitted to redeem ...

Challenger wins $650m mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... communications at Challenger, confirmed the deal was struck with a major asset consultant which advises corporate master trusts. The GIR was launched to target institutional clients, promising an indexed return linked to fixed interest indices. The $650 ...

Tide turns in industry vs retail fund performance

APRA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
... industry (16 per cent). Driving these rates of return (ROR) were, on average, a 29.5 per cent allocation into wholesale trusts, 22.4 per cent in individually managed mandates and 19.4 per cent invested in life office funds. According to APRA, corporate ...

New performance reporting standards for retail funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
... not-for-profit funds and retail funds. A particular focus however is to better reflect "member experience" in corporate master trusts and for large account balance holders where members can receive fee rebates that significantly lower their effective ...

MIT tax regime modernised and simplified

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2010
... director of after-tax investment, goes through what the Budget announcement of the new tax regime for managed investment trusts (MIT) mean for investors. The big fear before yesterday's Budget speech was that the government, on consultation with the ...