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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.

NSW Bookmakers and Perpetual top super tables

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2006
The latest Rainmaker/SelectingSuper Performance Tables have revealed continuing strong returns for default and Australian shares options for super funds, with NSW Bookmakers topping the default options scorecard and Perpetual leading the pack in Australian ...

PE investments - trustees must understand the risks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2006
... Prudential and Regulation Commission (APRA). Ross Jones, APRA deputy chairman told the recent conference of the Australian Super Funds Association (ASFA) that, "In a more competitive superannuation environment, some funds will seek to enhance investment ...

Japanese property a hit with Aussie investors

... (US$300 million) with 25 per cent of the total $1.12 billion (US$865 million) capital raising coming from five Australian super funds alone. The MGP Japan Core Plus Fund has already bought a 13 property portfolio for JPY9.25 billion (approximately $105 ...

Ironbridge rounds up $1b in PE capital raising

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2006
... Management, Macquarie Funds Management and a number of major local super funds like UniSuper, Telstra Super, ARIA and Australian Super. Many of the international investors are drawn from Asia, North America and Europe, many of whom are first-time investors ...

UniSuper announces new chairman

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2006
... Professor Smith was involved with the formation of UniSuper and steered it to become one of the giants of the Australian super landscape. Bryan led the NSW State Super Fund from 1994 to 2000 and has been an independent director of UniSuper since 2002 ...

Keating laments missed super opportunities

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006
Australia's stop-start superannuation reforms in the last decade, that have focused more on choice rather than actually boosting savings, have cost hundreds of billions of dollars in missed savings opportunities and we are only now starting to catch ...

Alternatives appetite triggers Russell re-shuffle

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2006
Russell Investment Group has reshuffled its Australian alternative assets team and brought on board a new team member in response to the increasingly aggressive appetite of Australian superannuation funds for alternative investments. Russell's director ...

Super funds to back new home equity mortgage group

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2006
Superannuation funds are set to get behind a new home equity mortgage group, headed up by the former chief executive officer of Rothschild Asset Management, that will bring shared appreciation style mortgages to Australia. Peter Martin together with ...