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Current Edition Volume 3 Number 1 Subscribe to The Journal of Superannuation Management Events Calendar Feb 15 - SPAA SMSF National Conference 15 - FSC Leadership Series 2012 21 - Finsia's Covered Bonds Seminar – NSW 21 - Finsia's Trends in Mergers & Acquisitions - VIC 28 - Finsia's Covered Bonds Seminar – VIC FSiTV About Financial Standard Research Platform Report Hedge Funds Mandate Chaser Roundup Advantage Benchmarking Contact Us	Blogs Middle Kingdom back on top By Alex Dunnin \| 0 Comments Monday, 30 January 2012 11:21am In 1800 China, the world's longest running civilisation, was a global powerhouse controlling one-third of the world economy. The Middle Kingdom's wealth shaded even the combined might of Western ... Read more Twin peaks By Alex Dunnin \| 0 Comments Monday, 5 December 2011 4:59pm I was wrong. I used to think super fund returns stuck in the doldrums was bad enough and worse is that these returns are 90% correlated with share markets. Exotic investment strategies, complex implementation ... Read more Feelin' lucky, punk? By Alex Dunnin \| 0 Comments Thursday, 13 October 2011 10:57am What do you call a superannuation prudential regulator that has no powers to prudentially regulate super funds? An APRA. For years we've been bluffed, suckered. All this time we thought APRA was the superannuation ... Read more Could Medicare cure this sick patient? By Alex Dunnin \| 0 Comments Thursday, 4 August 2011 4:34pm The campaigning is over, the votes cast. The scrutineers have gone home. This year's award for the most ridiculous regulatory idea goes to the Neanderthals who want Facebook to be forced to give them access ... Read more Euro can't get no satisfaction By Alex Dunnin \| 0 Comments Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:54am Eva Scutts was a hairdresser born in the inner-western Sydney suburb of Petersham. In 1939 she migrated to England with her husband Basil Jagger, who was descended from a long line of schoolteachers and ... Read more No longer MAD By Alex Dunnin \| 0 Comments Tuesday, 21 June 2011 3:32pm If only Mikhail Gorbachev didn't blink in 1991 and shut down the Soviet Union following the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. And if only he could have hung on for another 15 years he might have won ... Read more Wikileaks is a problem for super funds too By Alex Dunnin \| 0 Comments Tuesday, 14 December 2010 2:18pm Anyone who thinks Wikileaks is only about embarrassing politicians obviously hasn't thought through what's now in play, and it's time for super fund trustees and their executives to start preparing for ... Read more Here we go again By Alex Dunnin \| 0 Comments Wednesday, 24 November 2010 1:18pm Here we go again. Yet another survey has shown that consumers are confused about superannuation, this time with the rallying call that one-third of pre-retirees don't understand the super tax rules. So ... Read more Making hay from currency By Alex Dunnin \| 0 Comments Monday, 25 October 2010 2:41pm If there is an upside to our dollar breaking parity it's the near universal acceptance that intervening to bring down the dollar would be futile. But for super fund trustees the bigger question is should ... Read more Slow Money needs fast response By Alex Dunnin \| 0 Comments Monday, 20 September 2010 2:35pm What is it about retirement savings and investment gimmicks for changing the world? The latest is the Slow Money movement, which wants Americans within the next decade to invest 1 per cent of their assets ... Read more Performance in crisis By Alex Dunnin \| 0 Comments Friday, 13 August 2010 12:23pm The election will soon be over and thoughts will turn to what will be the regulatory reform agenda of the next government. Big mistake. Whatever awaits us along the regulatory road, super funds, asset ... Read more Time for some pillar talk By Alex Dunnin \| 0 Comments Monday, 19 July 2010 12:10pm After wading through the hundreds of media articles and public reactions following the release of the Cooper Report and seeing almost no meaningful criticisms apart from minor protests coming from the ... Read more Risky reviews of group insurance By Alex Dunnin \| 0 Comments Tuesday, 15 June 2010 9:52am Two reviews of super fund group insurance have come to two quite distinct conclusions. It was reported recently that the peak superannuation association, ASFA, has supported an initiative to standardise ... Read more Super profits, super tax, super precedent By Alex Dunnin \| 0 Comments Wednesday, 5 May 2010 12:13pm If the Henry Tax Review was meant to be a "root and branch" review of the tax system then it is a good thing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Treasurer Wayne Swan are not in the landscaping business.Two years ... Read more Time to bust the merger mythology By Alex Dunnin \| 0 Comments Monday, 22 February 2010 3:30pm The biggest operator of super funds in the nation is the NSW State Government with its four funds controlling $50 billion. Add in NSW Local Government super and their public sector electricity super funds ... Read more
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