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Aon renews vows with AIG

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2007
Aon Master Trust has signed a new three year agreement with AIG Life, extending the company's seven year partnership as group insurance partner. Aon's director of superannuation, Steve Gaffney, said working together, the two companies had reduced claims ...

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 ...

Super fees battle competition and returns

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007
... Warner Actuaries, show average annual super fees dropping industry-wide, with the largest reductions occurring in corporate master trusts, retail post retirement, personal superannuation and small funds. "This is an intensely competitive industry and ...

MLC property fund to stand alone

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2007
MLC has made its Global Property Fund available as a stand-alone sector fund on its MLC Wholesale Funds and MasterKey Custom platform for the first time since its inception in 2005. The decision came after increased advisor demand, and the growing trend ...

Super fees jump triple inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2007
... premium choice fund. The study diagnoses fees for 458 separate products, covering 191 not for profit fund variants and 267 master trusts representing half the entire assets of superannuation industry and in excess of 20 million member accounts.

Compliance pushes SMSFs in new direction

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2007
Increased compliance burdens for self-managed super funds are fuelling a push into platforms, SMAs and wraps, according to MLC's general platforms manager, Anthony Waldron, and Arthur Naoumidis, managing director of Praemium. "(On) the two-to-three-year ...

Kiwibank fined over lack of disclosure

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2007
New Zealand government-owned bank Kiwibank yesterday pleaded guilty to breaching the Fair Trading Act while a banking group recently appointed as a KiwiSaver default fund is also under investigation. The case concerns banks which failed to properly ...

Tolhurst appoints new economist/strategist

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2007
... oldest independent stock broking firm celebrating its 150th anniversary. Farnham holds an honours degree in economics and a Master of Commerce (Funds Management).

Market volatility, rising AUD hits super funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2007
... three years for default choices, seven in the top 10 balanced choices and eight in the top 10 growth choices. However, master trusts have maintained their flipside dominance of sector investment choices, taking out all top 10 places in Australian shares ...

Equity Trustees' sunny forecast

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2007
... Queensland office opening at the end of 2006 and the recent announcement of our intended acquisition of the Freedom of Choice master trust and IDPS. "These initiatives indicate that we are not standing still. It is our intention to continue to grow our ...