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Van Eyk travelling quite well: Thomas

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
Van Eyk didn't make a lot of money last year but it is publishing more research and refusing to budge on how it charges for ratings, said Mark Thomas, managing director at the firm. Speaking at van Eyk's 7th Annual Conference, Thomas said although van ...

Asset consultants under fee pressures

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... results? Refreshingly honest. The heads of four asset consultancies - JANA, Frontier, Towers Watson and Sovereign Investment Research - braved the limelight at the CMSF to answer questions in the minds of many trustees: are they worth their paycheques? ...

SMSFs breach less ATO rules

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... personal loans to members - continue to plague the sector. According to the latest Partners Superannuation Services' research, SMSFs in breach of fund rules have dropped by over 4 per cent - from 11.3 per cent in 2008 to 7.2 per cent last year. The Partners' ...

Hands off SMSFs, warns assoc

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... to 32 per cent of all the money contributed into superannuation, triple the proportion of 10 years ago, according to research by Rainmaker. The value of SMSF tax concessions, estimated conservatively by assuming they receive them in proportion to their ...

Instos still lukewarm on climate change risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
... super funds are expecting to be able to call upon their asset consultants to provide advice in this area," noted the research. Still, Australian super funds are considered among the strongest proponents of ESG investing, including climate change, compared ...

Angel in the detail: Cooper's cost cutting measures

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
... those members [with less than $1,000]," he said. "Across all Workplace Super funds, according to the latest Rainmaker Fee Research, the average Member Benefit Protection cost stood at 0.01 per cent per annum, rising to a maximum of 0.2 per cent p.a. ...

Analyse this

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
The Janus Global Research 130/30 fund zoomed past its benchmark by more than 12 per cent last year - gaining 47.7 per cent in the year to December - thanks to its secret weapon: career analysts. Jim Goff, director of research at Janus, a $97 billion ...

FUM breaks through $1.4 tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
... trillion barrier again after climbing 12.8 per cent in 2009 and returning to where it was 18 months ago, according to new research from Rainmaker. "This is the third consecutive quarter of FUM growth, confirming how the FUM market is returning to normal ...

ETS collapse threatens ESG

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
... and protect key GHG emitters, instead of a market-based emissions trading scheme (ETS), threatens to dissolve the ESG research groundwork laid by the investment community in the past two years. "The issues of climate change and emissions trading were ...

Matrix drops van Eyk for Morningstar

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
Matrix Planning Solutions has ended its 10-year relationship with van Eyk and appointed Morningstar as its new research provider. Matrix's mandate with van Eyk has been in place almost since the inception of the planning firm in 1999. Rick Di Cristoforo ...