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Going Passive

Insto investors question active management

Never before, or at least never in living memory, have super funds faced such uncertainty as in the past 12 months. But with signs of recovery emerging for both markets and the global economy, trustee boards are feeling that it is safe to get back into the water.…

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June 2009

Super funds man frontline in war on mental illness

As Australia’s unemployment rate continues to climb, depression and, tragically, suicide, threaten to become larger social problems. Our superannuation funds stand uniquely poised to help – they are in direct contact with most of Australia’s working population, and as providers…

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Editorial

Of funds managers and real estate agents

It takes a lot to shock someone in the superannuation industry these days, but Jeremy Cooper did the trick with his address to the ASFA luncheon in Sydney last month.

The moment you could actually hear the jaws drop was when the ASIC deputy chairman, who’s now running Chris Bowen’s ‘super review’, lumped in those long-suffering funds managers with…real estate agents. And worse, investment bankers.

Reflections

Nicholas Applegate withdrawal raises bigger questions

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John Hamer, the Australian head of Nicholas Applegate, the San Diego-based equities and bond manager, got the phone call about 30 minutes before he was to have an important meeting with his largest client, AMP. Both his sales office in Sydney and the client service office in Melbourne were to be closed with just a few days notice. Hamer went through with the meeting and presented the company line: the product was a good one and was unaffected by the withdrawal of the Australian presence.