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Super funds at a 34-month high

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013
... Personal Super with 16.7%, IOOF Portfolio Service with 15.7% and HostPlus with 15.5%. The top five public offer Retirement funds (by balanced options) over the 12 months were OneAnswer with 21.3%, AMG Retirement Super with 19.6%, HostPlus and Sunsuper ...

Local appetite for hedge funds outstrips other markets

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... base but praised the Australian superannuation market has one of the most developed in the world "Australian retirement funds are very sophisticated investors. The superannuation community is viewed as the gold standard for pension investment around ...

AUI makes property team appointment

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
... AUI's focus on the retail and intermediated market, where Lumby will work closely with head of healthcare and retirement funds, Chris Smith. Lumby was previously head of Office and Industrial Property Funds. He joined AUI in 2011 from Investa Property ...

Super funds post stellar returns - AREITs on top

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
... and tied on fifth place with 13.9% were Mercer, Perpetual Wealth Focus and HostPlus. The top five public offer Retirement funds by balanced options over the 12 months were ANZ OneAnswer with 16.6%, HostPlus and REST both with 16.2%, IOOF Portfolio Service ...

US pension fund pulls gun investments

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2013
... Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa yesterday called for the city's three pension fund managers to move their retirement funds away from companies that make certain types of ammunition. "I don't want to make a quarter, not a penny, not a dime on companies ...

Pension funds reckless on climate risk: Hewson

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... world's biggest investors are managing the risk of climate change. "The first survey of the world's 1,000 largest retirement funds, insurance companies and sovereign wealth funds' management of climate risk paints a disturbing overall picture of greenwash ...

Super fund returns dip back below double-digits

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
... Colonial FirstChoice with 10.5%, REST with 10.4% and First State Super with 10.1%. The top five public offer Retirement funds (by balanced options) over the 12 months were ANZ OneAnswer with 12.6%, REST with 11.9%, CareSuper with 11.7%, Chifley Super ...

Retirement solution upside for investment managers: Oliver Wyman

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
An expected doubling of post-retirement funds under management (FUM) from 8% in 2010 to 16% by 2020, represents golden opportunities for investment managers, Jacob Hook of Oliver Wyman Financial Services advised delegates at IMCA's (Investment Management ...

Banned adviser faces jail term

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
... the clients to sign the third party security documents. As a result of this action, over $900,000 of clients' retirement funds were held as security for a margin loan facility he operated. In his role, ASIC also alleges Carll provided false documents ...

Equities don't work in retirement

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
High equity weightings in accumulation superannuation are unsuited to retirement funds, presenting a big opportunity to life offices and super funds to create products that mimic the age pension. Jeremy Cooper, former head of the Superannuation System ...