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Bracks to return to funds management

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... consul generals," Bracks said. Although it is unclear if he will be going back to his former role as Cbus chair, the superannuation fund confirmed to Financial Standard that it is still in the process of finding a new chair. Cbus has appointed an interim ...

Telstra Super lures members with SMSF lookalike

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
Corporate super fund Telstra Super has launched a new investment platform offering members direct access to term deposits and shares, in a move to retain members who might otherwise set up self-managed super funds (SMSFs). The investment option, called ...

Could ASIC become the SMSF regulator?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
The recent scrutiny that self-managed super funds (SMSFs) have found themselves under from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) could be a taste of things to come, according to lawyer Claire Wivell Plater, managing director of ...

Super returns climb to 16.8 pct

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
Super funds have begun 2013-14 with more robust results that in July 2013 pushed up the SelectingSuper Workplace rolling 12 month default option index to 16.8%, the best rolling 12 month return in three years. Explaining why the result was so high ...

Industry backs Cormann as Superannuation Minister

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
... financial services bodies are throwing their support behind Mathias Cormann, asking for him to be appointed Minister of Superannuation and Financial Services in the new Government. "I've only ever asked one thing of Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey: that they ...

Orient Capital launches APRA reporting service

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
... data from custodians, accounting systems and administration systems, compile the information and provide it to its superannuation fund clients. The Stronger Super reforms have opened a new world of opportunity for players such as Orient Capital (part ...

Australian pension fund growth outstrips global average

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
... are AustralianSuper (54), QSuper (80), First State Super (94), State Super NSW (96), UniSuper (104), Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation (CSC) (126), REST (142), HESTA (160), Sunsuper (161), Cbus (167), ESSSuper (194), Super SA (235), GESB (247) ...

Hedge funds fear 'draconian' disclosure rules

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
Superannuation funds could find themselves locked out of the best international private equity and hedge funds if the government's "draconian" portfolio holdings disclosure requirements go through unamended, representatives of the alternative investment ...

ETF market closes in on $9 billion milestone

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
... strong growth of Australia's ETF market will continue given rising demand from direct investors and self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) who are using ETFs to broaden their portfolios to include assets which they couldn't previously access easily. ...

Advisers' "bickering" looks unprofessional

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
... about advisers," he said. He argued that "self-employed financial planners tend to criticise planners that work for superannuation funds or banking institutions." "It would improve professionalism if they tried to be less emotional, this criticism between ...