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Local funds won't follow CalPERS lawsuit

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
... local superannuation funds seem unlikely to follow suit. For instance Greg Sword, chief executive of the $2 billion Labour Union Co-operative Retirement Fund, said the situation of pension funds in the US are different to those in Australia, because ...

IFSA appoints Brogden as CEO

IFSA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
The former New South Wales Liberal Party and opposition leader, John Brogden, has been appointed chief executive of the Investment & Financial Services Association. Brogden will take up his post on 28th of August, following the resignation of IFSA's ...

Berry Fin Services ready for next growth phase

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... Berry, said ComCorp's 40 per cent stake gives her company more firepower to grow its client base, particularly in the credit union sector. MMC Contrarian subsidiary, ComCorp Financial Advice, bought a 40 per cent stake in Berry Financial Services which ...

Scheuber appointed QSuper chairman

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2009
... Walter Ivessa, assistant under treasurer, Queensland Treasury, and Michael Barnes, general secretary, Queensland Police Union of Employees as trustees to its board. Deeth joined the Queensland Department of Child Safety in July 2004, where she served ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... BHP Billiton had advanced $1.15, or 3.15 per cent, to $37.65 at 1204 AEST. European steel makers have called for European Union anti-trust regulators - which stymied BHP Billiton's hostile $US68 billion ($A84.5 billion) bid for Rio Tinto last year - ...

Maritime Super to manage Teekay fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... the fund of choice for all maritime workers," said Robertson. Maritime Super was formed on 1 March 2009 as a result of the union of two of Australia's longest-running super funds, the Stevedoring Employees Retirement Fund and the Seafarers Retirement ...

Half a billion up for grabs

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
More than 600,000 Australians today can have a chance at winning back a share of $564 million in unclaimed life policies, company and bank funds, according to ASIC. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission recently said that the money is ...

Unions attack retirement age change

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... unfair. The Australian newspaper today reported that the major industrial unions, the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CMFEU) and the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), have written a strongly worded letter to Prime Minister ...

Pension age lift under fire

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
... retirement savings. Driving opposition however is not concern with the government's premise of increasing longevity but Union fears that for blue collar employees having to work longer until they retire will damage their health. Pensioner groups are ...

APRA calls for IT risk submissions

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
Super funds, insurance firms and credit unions have just three weeks to deliver a written submission to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) on effectively managing information technology (IT) risk. The regulatory body said IT risk ...