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Russell overhauls diversified funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2009
... interest has broadened from 20-30 per cent to 18-38 per cent. The changes are detailed in the firm's product disclosure statements which were issued this month. Pease said strategic tilting is different from tactical asset allocation because one of the ...

Aon raises member fees

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
... until the expiry date of the fee guarantee. Details of all fees will be set out in the 1 July 2009 product disclosure statements. Aon similarly raised its member fee around the same time last year. The fees were raised from $60 to the current $63.

Insurance needs more disclosure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... moving faster towards simplified disclosure, with fees and commissions displayed prominently in Product Disclosure Statements (PDS). Financial Standard asked some of the country's leading insurers how they would respond if, hypothetically, the financial ...

AMP posts strong super and risk flows

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
... significantly in new systems to produce shorter, clearer documents, including customer statements and product disclosure statements," said Dunn. This strategy reflects earlier comments from Peter Mason, chair at AMP. He said while AMP cannot pre-empt ...

NGS Super targets female fin lit

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... information on different investment options. Members can also download fact sheets, newsletters and product disclosure statements from the website. The fund's membership includes more than 80,000 school staff and 3,000 employers nationwide. NGS Super ...

Wide Bay tags Aviva insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
... advertising will follow the launch in the forms of brochures and tailing information about it in product disclosure statements. But both parties acknowledge that Wide Bay staff require training on the product before properly distributing Widecover LiFE ...

MLC locks premium rates

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
MLC is locking its insurance level premium rates for the next five years and refreshing its product disclosure statements in its latest endeavour to draw fresh clients. MLC confirmed at its Insurance Forum today that the guarantee applies to new clients ...

AIMA and IFSA respond to temp shorting ban

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... management industry. "The issues we're interested in is what we might need to do and not do with product disclosure statements and mandates...we also need to have a look at if there is any impact on redemptions. These are serious questions we'll be talking ...

IRESS upgrades service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... income." Version 130 also includes Fund Click software which generates more than 100 electronic product disclosure statements (PDS) across all fund managers and platforms. Kinens said financial planners usually need to learn each platform's unique PDS ...

ASFA proposes asset classification standards

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... are a number of superannuation funds that have ceased to use the words growth and defensive in the Product Disclosure Statements. Rather, the funds just name asset classes that comprise the diversified asset class options." The paper did not nominate ...