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Challenger wins $200m from AustralianSuper

AUSTRALIANSUPER RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2010
... presents significant potential to increase the rate of return on the fund's fixed interest portfolio. "As a result of the GFC there is now a demand and supply imbalance in credit markets, in which pricing power has shifted to the hands of suppliers of ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
... the post-global financial crisis environment. "It's just a very apathetic market at the moment and I just think, post-the GFC, it doesn't take much of a setback to shatter the collective confidence of the market," Mr Wright said. "There's just not a ...

Bored with half-empty glasses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
... default in the 1980's, the Savings & Loan Crisis of the late 80s/early 1990s, the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s, the GFC in 2008. The world experienced the same scare back then. Talks of moral hazard, stricter regulation, worries about debt ...

QIC adopts lifecycle investing

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
... required to meet a member's real retirement objectives. QIC managing director lifecycle strategies, Michael Drew, said the GFC had highlighted the shortcomings of the traditional 'set and forget' approaches to default option design. "With most super ...

The disappearing act of lose-lose funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
Fund managers and super funds are responding to the 'credibility gap' in the wake of the GFC with major reforms to the way they structure fees, create products and meet their fiduciary duties, research found. This week, UK-based CREATE-Research released ...

Govt extends drawdown relief for account-based pensions

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
... retirees everyday and see the pressure that they are under with the fall in the capital base of their superannuation after the GFC," said Michael Lorimer, chair of SISFA. "SISFA calls on the Government to make these lower drawdown levels permanent. A ...

Bookmakers fund adopts liquidity strategy

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
... dividing its balanced pension and accumulation options in a bid to reopen the fund which faced illiquidity problems during the GFC. The Bookmakers Superannuation Fund was deeply impacted by stalled investment markets in the past two years, and in particular ...

Funds thrive with nimble IT

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
... system has become even more important as more fund managers try to grow their business with less resources than before the GFC, said Pascal Wanner, account manager for the Swiss market at SimCorp. Wanner said that while many fund managers already have ...

How the wealthy invest their money

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... last year, according to a new report that sheds some light on how the rich allocated their funds just after the peak of the GFC. The latest World Wealth Report, released by Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management and Capgemini, shows Australia's HNW population ...

H3 Global Advisors sponsors Griffith students

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... students working on long-term research in applied finance, which will be assessed by H3 Global and the university. "In a post-GFC world we need to better understand financial markets and their behaviour so by teaming up with an industry organisation ...