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Maritime Super launches fixed term pension product

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
Maritime Super will launch a fixed term pension product from December 1 as part of its complete member strategy. The third product within Maritime Super's retirement suite, the fund said it wanted to address the needs of its pension members in longevity ...

FOFA Tranche 2 reforms tabled in Parliament today

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2011
... requested to ban up-front and trailing commissions and like payments for both individual and group risk within superannuation from July 1 2013 however this will not extend to conflicted remuneration to risk insurance outside of superannuation. Consistent ...

MTAA Super names new chief and board

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2011
... Australia Bank, MLC Limited and Lend Lease Corporation. Dahn spent 15 years as a non-executive Director on three superannuation boards, and was also a director for the Victorian Emergency Services and State Super Fund from 2001. She also served on the ...

SPAA board appoints new member

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2011
... manager of the audit and financial services division of PricewaterhouseCoopers and also of the business services and superannuation division of Ernst & Young. SPAA said Baker was selected due to her strengths in technical expertise and accounting experience ...

Social media and the power of diversity

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2011
The potential impact of social media on business and the myth of 'having it all' was up for discussion at yesterday's Women in Super event with guest presenter, social media mogul and media personality, Mia Freedman. Speaking of the power of social ...

SG rise through House of Representatives

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
Leading superannuation bodies have welcomed the passage of the mining tax package through the lower House, which paves the way for the Superannuation Guarantee hike from 9 to 12 %. The 30 % tax on coal and iron ore profits, which successfully made it ...

AvSuper builds on its AllianceBernstein mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
AvSuper has increased its existing Australian Value mandate with AllianceBernstein to include global funds manager's Franked Australian Value service and improve the fund's after tax returns. The "significant allocation" to the value service is designed ...

MySuper Mythconceptions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
MySuper continues to generate hysteria among some superannuation industry commentators and it's time to remind ourselves what it is and, more importantly, what it is not. MySuper is the government's response within its StrongerSuper reform package to ...

AXA IM to expand responsible investment focus

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... According to Matt Christensen, who was recently appointed AXA IM's global head of responsible investment, Australia's superannuation funds sector would be a key driver of the emerging Asian growth market. But he warned that Australian institutional investors ...

Midwinter's Esler joins Ibbotson Associates

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... for Zurich Financial Services Australia. He also currently sits on the regulatory committee for the Self-Managed Superannuation Fund Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA). "We're pleased that Matthew has joined our investment management and ...