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Super set for best year since 2007

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
The recovery in super fund returns that continued apace in the year to May 2013 points to 2012/13 being the best returns year since 2007. The upbeat assessment is contained in the latest SelectingSuper Workplace rolling 12 month default option index ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
After sharp falls in its previous session, the Australian market looks set to open flat following gains on US and European bourses on encouraging manufacturing data out of Europe. At 0813 AEST on Tuesday, the September share price index futures contract ...

AIA Priority Protection added to Asgard

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
AIA Australia's Priority Protection products have been added to the Asgard superannuation platform. AIA said a third of risk business in Australia is now being written via platforms and advisers increasingly see them as a means to reduce their administrative ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
Australia's share market has opened marginally higher as upbeat American employment and home sales data adds a small bounce. But the third straight session of gains on Wall Street is unlikely to help the local share market finish in firmer territory ...

UK RDR market impacts gathering pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
Four in 10 UK financial advisers believe that, due to the impact of the Retail Distribution Review, within three years they will have closed down, merged or been acquired. The stark results are based on an ongoing survey program by the actionconsulting ...

Endowment bond product frees SMSFs to add risk

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
The steady stream of reliable income provided by endowment bonds provides self-funded retirees with the certainty to take greater risk elsewhere in their portfolios, according to Endowment Bond Exchange (EBX) chief executive officer Stephen Duchesne. ...

Former BlackRock exec to head up new BMO operation

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
Canadian firm BMO Financial Group (BMO) will expand its asset management business into Australia, operating as BMO Global Asset Management. BMO's Australian branch will be based in Melbourne under the direction of Ravi Sriskandarajah, the former head ...

Class Super beats BGL to launch automated property valuator

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
Self-managed super fund (SMSF) software provider Class Super has teamed up with property valuator RP Data to launch an automated property valuations service for SMSFs, ahead of BGL's planned launch of a similar service in two weeks. Class Super chief ...

Super investors scrutinise companies over LDC working conditions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
ASX-listed companies are being asked to confront poor working conditions in 'least developed countries' (LDCs), with the release of a paper by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) entitled 'Labour and Human Rights Risks in Supply-Chain ...

Service consumption bucks downward trend in EM equities

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
As emerging markets (EMs) shift emphasis from exports to consumption, some of the highest yields may come from the provision of services, according to Niall Paul, a UK-based partner at high alpha specialist wealth manager TT International (TT). "As ...