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Russell appoints two to senior insto roles

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2007
Russell Investment Group has announced the appointment of a senior consultant to the alternative assets and strategies team and welcomed a senior consultant to the actuarial and benefits team. Peter Worcester joins Russell's Melbourne office as senior ...

Aussie super software turns Kiwi

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2007
IT systems provider InvestmentLink has announced a software package for managed fund providers offering KiwiSaver schemes or Portfolio Investment Entities (PIE funds) to New Zealand investors. Initially, the package only comes with 'Gatekeeper', designed ...

Crystal ball gets cloudy in wait for CPI figures

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2007
Inflation figures out tomorrow will be a telling predictor into the RBA's decision on domestic interest rates next week. Many economists are already tipping that, with further deterioration in import prices set to push down headline inflation over months ...

UniSuper appoints Peacock, Cuffe as independent directors

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2007
UniSuper has appointed Mervyn Peacock and Chris Cuffe to the board as independent directors. Peacock was previously AMP Capital Investors' chief investment officer, and Cuffe acted as Colonial First State and Challenger Financial Services' chief executive. ...

Overseas investors target Aussie super fund cash flows

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2007
Large numbers of overseas investment managers are targeting Australian super funds as they look to profit from the huge cash flows on offer, according to deputy managing director of Frontier Investment Consulting, Kristian Fok. Fok said that the Australian ...

ING opens up alternatives

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2007
... approaching retirement, this will provide potential capital growth, as well as peace of mind." Almost a third of Australian super funds now invest in alternative investments, and internationally, alternative strategies have outperformed traditional global ...

Euro private equity awaits

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2007
Private equity is a huge universe globally and Australian super funds would do well to broaden their horizons, according to privately owned European private equity and hedge fund of funds specialist Unigestion. "I think as far as [Australian] super ...

ALP Govt will boost personal contributions: Swan

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2007
... which Party has the best future plan for the industry and for investors. Shadow Treasurer Wayne Swan told an Australian Super Funds Association Sydney (ASFA) luncheon yesterday that the ALP intends to make superannuation a top priority issue, reduce ...

Super funds could offer transaction banking

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2007
Super funds will have much greater scope to offer financial services and even transaction banking facilities to their retired members under the Simplified Super changes announced in last year's Budget. The abolition of taxes on super benefits, both ...

Past performance still a bad future indicator: S&P

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
... single manager mutual funds, which is quite different to measuring multi-manager pension funds familiar to most Australian super fund investors.