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Magellan puts money where its mouth is

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
Magellan Financial Group has launched two unique retail funds that only pay performance fees when returns exceed both a relative market benchmark and 10 year Australian Government Bond yields. The high conviction Global Fund is a market-uncorrelated ...

Super fund returns best in a decade: SelectingSuper

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2007
Super funds look set to deliver their best performance figures in a decade, with not-for-profit funds again stretching their lead, according to the latest SelectingSuper report. Default investment options averaged 14.9 per cent for the last financial ...

Super speeds past $1.1tr

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2007
... a 6.2 per cent increase to $182.7 billion, public sector fund assets increased by 5.1 per cent to $165.8 billion, retail fund assets jumped 3.7 per cent to $343.9 billion and corporate fund assets nudged up 2.6 per cent to $69.4 billion. The total return ...

Industry funds to boost planner numbers

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2007
... why would we advertise aggressively for members to get financial planning when the majority would end up going to a retail fund aligned financial planner?"

PDS more popular online: Vanguard

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2007
... "I think that trend will continue," he said. The numbers are particularly impressive given Vanguard only made their retail fund PDS's available online in the middle of last year, and the online take-up numbers have been steady over that period. Questioned ...

Perennial waives fees for three months

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2007
As an incentive to investors looking to quickly invest between now and the 30 June SimplerSuper deadline, Perennial Investment Partners will waive its fees on any new investments for three months. Perennial said the offer means they will reduce their ...

Bumper year for wealth managers

... corresponding period in 2005. "The majors' wealth management arms have benefited from strong equity markets, increased retail fund inflows and the government's tax-attractive superannuation reforms," said KPMG Partner Michelle Hincliffe. "Superannuation ...

Good times to keep rolling for investors

Perennial Investment Partners' monthly Investors Index has found that April was an excellent month for investors in property and shares. "Global property has benefited from both a shift in institutional investor asset allocation in the developed markets ...

Avanteos loses $7 billion Goldman Sachs mandate

Colonial First State (CFS) has lost a $7.1 billion Goldman Sachs JBWere mandate from its Avanteos platform, according to the CBA's third quarter trading update that was released yesterday. CFS advise the mandate represented only 4 per cent of the stated ...

Former IOOF head of retail joins S&P

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2007
Standard & Poor's (S&P) has appointed IOOF's former head of retail funds management as an executive in the investment services division. Jarrod Brown resigned from his position as head of retail funds management with IOOF in August last year. In his ...