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Super about national not personal savings: Morgan

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... simplicity in super and low regulation risk, lower cost, increased convenience and security, and better investment performance through different cycles are great starting points that will increase the attractiveness of superannuation. Morgan said it ...

BTIM attracts $1bn in net flows

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2009
... driven by falling profits. "We have continued to focus on managing our client's funds, delivering strong investment performance, developing innovative products while at the same time, controlling our cost base and maintaining a strong balance sheet," ...

Gems in smaller property trusts: BTIM

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2009
... last year. Despite this, the firm managed to perform in the top of its peer group, according to the Mercer Investment Performance Surveys on AREIT (all funds) as at 31 August, ranking top for a three-year period (-14.7 per cent), fourth for five years ...

CalPERS endorses best practice in PE

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
... private equity industry as a whole, these guidelines will help ensure that participants stay focused on investment performance as the primary means to profit generation." Since launching its ILPA Private Equity Principles on September 8, the global trade ...

More info on super, please

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
... recently surveyed its newsletter readers, and noted that super tax strategies to boost retirement savings, investment performance and current economic events were the top three topics prized by the fund's members and employers. Other points of interest ...

Caveat to APRA data: ASFA

ASFA MEDIA STATEMENT  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2009
... part of the list, ASFA said. Various super fund rating agencies provide more detailed and more current investment performance information to the media and the public than is contained in APRA's numbers, argued the industry association. "One aspect where ...

Perpetual poised to gain market share

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
... market recovery particularly given improvements in the firm's customer services, IT systems and "strong investment performance" of their flagship funds against their benchmarks. He added that proposed regulatory reforms, particularly those mentioned ...

Retirees want funds that last a lifetime

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
... global financial crisis wiped out as much as 27 per cent of the value of super funds - the second worst investment performance for private pensions out of 30 OECD countries, he said. "This illustrates there is a gap in the market for other investment ...

Liquidity problem in unlisted assets overstated: RWA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
... then show results against this - with a simple attribution analysis." "If we take a longer term view of investment performance (as we should for superannuation) then short term performance is irrelevant," said RWA. RWA said "funds should also consider ...

Flawed fund analysis demands new metric: Study

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... funds into the marketed funds," noted Wilson Sy and Kevin Lui. The authors will be presenting their paper Investment Performance Ranking of Superannuation Firms to the Colloquium of Superannuation Researchers this week. Sy and Lui argue that an alternative ...