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Aviva super gives $800 tax refund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2008
... superannuation. "Last year was a year of good returns which means that this year the tax refunds have been flowing through to pensions," he said. "We all know that pensions are now tax free but it gets better than that. Last year our pensioner averaged ...

Perpetual value in retirement : SelectingSuper

... Australian Equity Options, Perpetual's SHARE-PLUS, Concentrated Equity and Smaller Companies were the top three account-based pensions based on one year performance to March. These options returned 5.5 per cent, 3.7 per cent and 2.4 per cent respectively ...

Austock Life strikes $100m

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
... superannuation, especially for investors facing age-based or work-test contribution restrictions. Monies exiting super via pensions and annuities are obvious areas, as are redundancies which have lost their super roll-over benefits," said Austock Life ...

130/30 demand drops

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
... the end of March - a reversal of a trend that pervaded for the most part of the last two years. Figures from US-based Pensions & Investments indicated a 22 per cent increase in funds ran by 53 managers in the States. These managers currently manage $71 ...

AMP Fin Services Q1 cashflow drops $624m

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2008
... mandate wins in both periods, net cashflows fell to $119 million from $341 million. Meanwhile, AMP's retail super and pensions/annuities net cashflows were $263 million for the March 2008 quarter, down from $364 million in the previous corresponding ...

Canadian pensions down again

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
... "The MCSI World Index plunged 11.9 per cent in local currency terms. Performance nearly matched the index, but Canadian pensions lost only 5.5 per cent once exchange rates are taken into account," said Don McDougall, director of advisory services for ...

Retirement liabilities dwarf assets six-fold

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
... benefits. Illustrating the extent of looming public pension tsunami, they said by 2040 China is expected to be paying pensions to almost 400 million people. Defined benefit funds, despite their unfavoured status by policymakers in Australia, still account ...

Purist private equity adds value

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2008
... an alternative form of PE investment is rising to take advantage of the market downturn. According to the 2008 Global Pensions Assets Study released by Watson Wyatt, alternative asset allocations - including PE - spearheaded by superannuation funds rose ...

RSL snubs proposed super changes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... currently in place has an indexation of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) only. We believe that as all other government pensions use both the CPI and average weekly earnings, this pension should move to the same index arrangement," said Crews. "This proposal ...

JPMorgan buys $342.5 bn Nordic custody service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... months and means JPMorgan will be the global custodian for its internal services such as Nordea Funds and Nordea Life & Pensions. In addition, JPMorgan will provide depository services to in-country mutual funds via Nordea's branches in Denmark, Finland ...