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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
The Australian share market was marginally in the red at noon in directionless trade following mixed overseas leads overnight. At 1202 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 13.8 points, or 0.36 per cent, at 3,783.1 points, while the broader ...

Transition mandates to reach record highs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
A record number of super funds and endowments will replace their fund managers later this year to get rid of poor-performing funds and make way for new asset allocation strategies, predicts Mellon Transition Management. MTM, the transition management ...

Active manager mandates to increase: Mercer

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
... to allocate more funds with active managers to capture the one-off abnormal returns coming out of stockmarkets as they switch into recovery mode. Simon Eagleton, principal at Mercer, is advising clients where appropriate to increase their allocation ...

Super breakthrough for SMAs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... from many of its competitors on two points: one, it is available on Aviva's platform as an option which allows advisers to switch in and out of them the same way they've done with the products already on the platform. Two, the product can accept superannuation ...

Five minutes of sunshine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... of equity investing. This is because at some point, risk-free interest rates would be high enough that investors would switch out of their riskier stock market holdings. The converse is true when interest rates are falling. And right now, interest rates ...

ESSSuper closes Cash Plus option

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... investments, contributions and switches at the end of last month. While members will still be able to withdraw, transfer or switch out of the Cash Plus option, they will no longer be able to pump funds into the strategy. Meanwhile, all new money put ...

Plum members avoid switching

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
... [out of] the whole Plum membership base, only 2 per cent of the assets have gone to cash," said Humphrys. The 2 per cent switch mirrors a similar figure from the previous year, where switching rates hovered at 1.9 per cent. The 2 per cent figure is also ...

No flight to cash at Equipsuper

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
Majority of Equipsuper's members did not switch from equities to the cash option despite the heavy falls in the sharemarket last year, said the fund's chief executive. Robin Burns, who heads up the "hybrid" $4.2 billion fund that hosts both defined ...

Clouds still far away

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2009
... Meanwhile, the survey also confirmed that seven out of ten companies currently depending on internal IT systems have no plans to switch to cloud-based - a metaphor for the Internet or online technologies - in the next 12 months. "Our experience is that ...

AMP moves into direct super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
AMP Financial Services is launching a simple, low cost, no commission online superannuation fund, Flexible Lifetime Super Easy, designed to appeal to Gen X and Y. This move by AMP follows a trend by Virgin Superannuation, Max Super and the popular BT ...