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Christian Super urges more transparent investment beliefs

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
Christian Super has put in place a new Investment Belief Statement (IBS), and urged others to follow suit to help avoid a future financial crisis. The $600 million fund headed to New York to speak at the American Conference Institute's National Summit ...

Financial services honoured with Queen's favour

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... (FEAL) founding chairman was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in recognition of his services to the superannuation industry and the broader community. In his career, Dwyer is a director for Association of Super Funds of Australia and chair ...

Super funds fail green assessment

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
Super funds are being accused of not maximising green investment opportunities, and avoiding full investment disclosure to members at a time when climate-related risks are a hot issue. In a report released yesterday, Global Investor Survey on Climate ...

Equipsuper builds intra-fund advice

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
... of a new fee payment service, which allows members to authorise that any fees associated with the provision of superannuation advice are paid from their accumulation account," said John Farrington, manager superannuation services, Equipsuper. The fund's ...

SMSF trustees pile $69.5m in US property

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
... Dixon Advisory is a member of the Dixon Advisory Group, which services more than 3,900 SMSF clients with a combined superannuation asset base of more than $3.9 billion. The firm said Australian investors and SMSF trustees in particular were very interested ...

Russell funds get stars

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
... 'NEW' rating by the research and ratings house. The Russell Australian After Tax Fund (After Tax Fund) targets superannuation investors, from large industry, public sector and corporate funds through to smaller self-managed super funds (SMSFs). The After ...

Customers rate SMSFs the best

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
The latest Superannuation Satisfaction report from consumer researcher Roy Morgan has found that 75 per cent of SMSF customers are satisfied with their fund returns, compared to just 52 per cent for industry fund customers and 47 per cent for retail ...

Excess contributions penalties soar to $400m

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
The Australian Tax Office has now raised $400 million through tax penalties on excess super contributions made between 2006 and 2010 with that figure likely to rise yet further. Speaking at an upper house enquiry of the economics legislation committee ...

Bravura launches mobile super site

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
Wealth management technology supplier Bravura Solutions has launched a new superannuation fund website to enable members to engage with super through mobile phones. The site is enabled by Bravura's online super product ePASS and is available on all ...

PC to review how defaults appointed to Awards

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
The Productivity Commission will in 2012 review how default funds are appointed to Industrial Awards, said superannuation minister Bill Shorten, just one day after APRA released figures showing that the retail sector has again under performed the not-for-profit ...