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CFS wins retail fund of the year award

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
Colonial First State (CFS) has been named Retail Superannuation Fund of the Year at research house Roy Morgan's 2012 Customer Satisfaction Awards. The win follows a successful year for CFS. It was awarded Best Fund Manager and ranked number one by advisers ...

AvSuper appoints Perpetual for a $75m equities mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... Investments for a $75 million Australian equities mandate. This is the first appointment that the Canberra-based superannuation fund has done in the last year and it is also the first time that it does business with Perpetual. "The appointment is a review ...

HESTA MySuper option gains approval

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
HESTA is the latest fund to be granted approval by the regulator APRA to offer a MySuper product. The option will be centred around the highly successful HESTA Core Pool, an investment choice that already has a long established performance track record ...

What Stronger Super?

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... released yesterday by Mercer had never heard of the Gillard Government's Stronger Super or MySuper reforms. As the superannuation sector comes to grips with the changes that have overhauled the industry, Mercer's Superannuation Sentiment Index yesterday ...

PineBridge pitches quant solution to super funds

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... industry as a whole, lower fee approaches are increasingly relevant to Australian investors. "We've been meeting with superannuation funds and other institutional investors to pose the Quantitative Enhanced Indexing approach as a potential solution to ...

Low risk choice poses high risk on savings: survey

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
About 50 per cent of young Australians choose a superannuation investment labelled "low risk" without knowing what it means and despite the fact that these options might not earn much more than the rate of inflation, according to a poll by AustralianSuper. ...

CBUS to review custody operations

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... appointed Drew Vaughan to conduct the RFP. Vaughan has more than 25 years' experience consulting to institutional superannuation funds and funds management organisations. The review is expected to take a few months and a final decision might be made ...

MySuper still ontrack despite low license applications

ALEX DUNNIN, LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
The number of superannuation funds applying for a license to run a MySuper product is likely to fall well short of expectations, but rather than suggest MySuper is flawed policy, it highlights how it is fundamentally an internal industry issue rather ...

Combined Super gets MySuper approval

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
Combined Super, previously named Combined Fund, received the authorisation from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) to offer a MySuper product. The industry fund for workers in education and related sectors, is one of the first funds ...

Pivotal changes name to Affinia

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... established in June 2001 and is wholly-owned by the TAL group. Pivotal advisers deal in life insurance and risk, superannuation and pensions, master funds, managed investments and direct equities.