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Adviser appetite for infrastructure investments increasing

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... Australian infrastructure Geoff Frankish. Currently infrastructure investments make up less than 1% of the average self-managed super fund (SMSF) but Frankish says advisers are beginning to understand the value of increasing allocations in their clients' ...

Citi develops white label banking for industry funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... label its retail banking services for industry super funds as a way of stemming the outflow to retail funds and self-managed super funds (SMSFs), Financial Standard can reveal. In what could prove a lifeline to industry funds in the battle to retain ...

Retail fund members most unsatisfied: Roy Morgan

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... members were satisfied with their fund's financial performance, compared with 53.7% of retail fund members. Self-managed super fund members were by far the most satisfied, at 75.6%, followed by public sector funds, at 65.5%. ESS Super again topped the ...

Retail fund members most unsatisfied: Roy Morgan

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... members were satisfied with their fund's financial performance, compared with 53.7% of retail fund members. Self-managed super fund members were by far the most satisfied, at 75.6%, followed by public sector funds, at 65.5%. ESS Super again topped the ...

Manny Pohl issues prospectus for new retail LIC

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... Small Ordinaries Accumulation Index which has seen a modest return of 5.4%. Pohl is specifically targeting self-managed super funds with his new Barrack Street Investments LIC. "It's widely acknowledged that SMSFs bias is heavily weighted to ASX top ...

Platinum steps up focus on adviser market

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
... international shares strategy within the adviser market. Neilson has identified an opportunity within the burgeoning self-managed super fund (SMSF) market. "We're trying to encourage more Australian money to go abroad because we've just had the best ...

MDA provider makes debut on ASX

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
... executive chairman Don Sharp said that around 70% of the company's assets under administrations are held by self-managed super funds (SMSFs). Sharp said that investors see the company "as a unique way to gain exposure to the mandated growth of Australia's ...

SMSF members getting younger

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
More than six in 10 self-managed super fund (SMSF) members are aged between 34 and 54 as Australian Taxation Office (ATO) data shows members are getting younger. According to the latest Trends in SMSFS report from CoreData, the age distribution of members ...

No difference between retail and insto: RARE

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... liquidity. While some managers are now offering retail access to unlisted infrastructure, aimed in particular at self-managed super funds (SMSFs), so far the SMSF market has been reluctant to get on board.

Getting ideas across to SMSFs the first battle: AMP

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
Distributing ideas to self-managed super funds (SMSF) is the first challenge for product providers looking to crack this inaccessible market, according to AMP Capital portfolio manager for infrastructure Perry Lucas. Lucas, who manages AMP Capital's ...