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AGEST Super upgrades insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
AGEST Super has improved the fund's insurance arrangement to members. The latest AGEST Super member newsletter announced that cover levels have been improved for different age groups, members can now transfer existing cover into AGEST Super and members ...

Future lies in present

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
... try and beat the market, businesses have to produce dividends for shareholders and Mister, Miss and Mrs. Jones want to upgrade to a Lamborghini. Such is the nature of the beast. Learn from the past, fix the present and the future will take care of itself. ...

S&P rates former CS funds 'four stars'

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
... equity funds a 'four stars' rating after the funds shifted to Aberdeen Asset Management's model portfolio. The ratings upgrade comes after Aberdeen Asset Management confirmed the funds had successfully moved from Capital International, Credit Suisse ...

Spin-a-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
Big yawn! Overnight news out of Wall Street provided little fresh direction, just a continuation of the recent trend we have seen so far - that is, anyone could choose any number from last night's stats and spin it both ways. Bull spin. US consumers ...

Finsuper members flock to new insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
... units or $10,000 per month have also been increased to a maximum of 85 per cent of the worker's salary. The insurance upgrade comes into effect from July this year at no extra cost to members. AustralianSuper negotiated the insurance enhancement separately ...

BlackRock wins Lonsec top rating

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
BlackRock's balanced funds have been upgraded by Lonsec to "Highly Recommended" - making BlackRock the only single-manager diversified fund offering to receive the top rating. Lonsec upgraded BlackRock's balanced funds from "Recommended" to its current ...

Tribeca stays on track

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2009
Tribeca Investment Partners has received a number of rating upgrades and one of its funds was added to an investment wrap one year after Grant Samuel Funds Management took an equity stake in the firm. David Aylward, chief executive at Tribeca Investment ...

No two ways about it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
Waiter, there's a fly in my soup. Financial markets stopped enjoying the tasty aroma of recovery in their soups last night after Standard & Poor's warned that it might downgrade the United Kingdom's AAA credit rating because of its widening budget deficit ...

Cavendish slashes SMSF starting fees

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
Cavendish Superannuation has axed 30 per cent off the establishment fees of new self-managed super funds - easing the cost for financial advisers with clients looking to set up SMSFs. SMSF specialist Cavendish announced that establishment fees for all ...

Sunsuper upgrades retirement program

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
Sunsuper, a fund that more than doubled in pension members during the 2007/08 financial year, has launched a pension product with an asset allocation that reflects post-retirement investor needs. Dubbed the Today and Tomorrow strategy; when investors ...