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MLC switches $65b custody contract to NCS

After more than two decades of partnership with State Street, MLC has switched its $65 billion custody and administration services contract for the MLC MasterKey platform to National Custodian Services (NCS). "With a custody services provider located ...

Credit Suisse yield fund 'highly recommended': Lonsec

... of principal protected products, whether they are equity or bond, once the fund is performing badly, the [provider] will switch into a less risky investment or a 'very safe' bond. Whereas for us, we will always have exposure to the asset class." PPYF ...

Planning business gives teachers bad advice

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
... specialised in financial advice for teachers. Between December 2004 and September 2005 First Capital advised 170 teachers to switch from First State Super to a fund they recommended. The Court found the statements of advice (SoAs) given to clients were ...

Advisers want transparency from licensees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2007
... the licensee sees their role as supporting their advisers or whether the advisers are just their distribution agents. The switch to fee for services is pushing this re-evaluation, especially among younger planners, he said. "We need to see transparent ...

ASX200 option for legalsuper

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2007
... cent of their super in top 200 listed companies. legalsuper joins a small but growing list of industry funds flicking the switch to choice and flexibility for their high-end customers. Andrew Proebstl, legalsuper chief executive, said the option was ...

ING set to ride structured credit wave

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2007
ING Investment Management (INGIM) has launched a new diversified, high-yield leveraged investments product - INGIM Global Yield Maximiser. The product intends to ride the wave of growth in structured credit in particular, and will invest in a range ...

Unionised workers only half all industry fund members

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2007
New research shows that industry funds are winning post-super choice, despite the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reporting that the proportion of private sector workers belonging to a union is only 15 per cent. According to the ABS, less than ...

Alternative low-cost retirement funds on rise in US

... trading shares is kept to the minimum. US publication Wall Street Journal reported in an article early this year that the switch to these kind of funds can cut an employer's transaction costs by as much as 30 to 50 per cent. In the same report, Deloitte ...

Less internet banking fraud at ANZ

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2007
ANZ say they have substantially cut internet banking fraud and confirmed that they see security as a competitive issue. ANZ, in a media release issued in connection with an award from an industry magazine, said that losses from internet banking fraud ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2007
... fundamental reason while the quality names in stocks have actually been laggard," Mr Xiradis said. He said there would be a switch coming out of the highly rated but poorer quality stocks into higher graded more liquid stocks. "A lot of the poorer quality ...