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Not enough US retail hedge funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
... However, in the retail world, the amount in hedge funds is very small," noted a whitepaper issued by the Infovest hedge fund research group. "Of the $11 trillion in the [broad] US retail [funds] market, only about $100 billion is in alternative 40 Act ...

Australia doesn't need a SWF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
... funds management market itself. The Future Fund is managed by the Future Fund Management Agency. According to Rainmaker research, the agency at end September looked after $90 billion, making it Australia's largest institutional investor. Its impact on ...

PIS contracts Zenith for product and research review

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
... Services has signed up Zenith Investment Partners to carry out an annual review of its approved product list and internal research process. Zenith will also take part in Professional Investment Services (PIS) investment committee meetings as an independent ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
... positively to China's weekend announcement of a further 0.5 per cent cut in its bank reserve ratio," Mr Spooner said in a research note. The benchmark US crude oil contract rose 93 US cents to a nine-month high of $US103.24 a barrel in New York on Friday ...

New cost estimates see MySuper equal SuperStream

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
... SuperStream would account for most of the cost incurred and MySuper was perceived as "just another product", according to the research. While technology and infrastructure were estimated to comprise 35% of costs incurred, business processes and people ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
... price index futures contract was down 53 points at 4,167, with 10,363 contracts traded. Australian Stock Report head of research Chris Conway said the postponing of a decision on the Greek aid package had weighed on the local market. "It's created some ...

S&P Capital IQ closes local fund research, wealth services

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
S&P Capital IQ has announced it will focus on institutional clients and no longer conduct local funds research and wealth management services from October this year. In total, 30 jobs are expected to be lost in the move, which will see a concentration ...

SMSFs focus on risk reduction: report

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... report, 'Intimate with Self Managed Superannuation' was commissioned by Russell and SPAA and conducted by independent research group CoreData. It surveyed SMSF trustees, non-trustees and professional SMSF advisers during November and December 2011. In ...

Contrib caps improve super social equity

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... superannuation contribution caps over the past five years have significantly improved superannuation's social equity, claims a new research report from peak superannuation interest group ASFA. The report, the latest superannuation industry research paper ...

Super tax subsidies don't favour the rich: Mercer

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
Mercer has released a research paper that dismisses claims retirement income funding through superannuation tax concessions favours the wealthy. The paper 'Tax, Super & the Age pension" reported that the total cost of retirement funding per person in ...