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Aviiid prepares to launch fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... expanded its executive team, ahead of the launch of a new fund early next year. Aviiid, an investment funds and superannuation manager, invests in senior housing, lifetsyle and care choices and operating companies relating to this industry. The firm ...

ATO to review 10,000 SMSFs

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... for these amounts and may incur a tax liability," said the ATO. Andrew Hamilton, managing director of Cavendish Superannuation said the ATO will make trustees consider what they do with their SMSFs more carefully, and seek out professional advice more ...

Super fund recovery 6pc but big funds fail to fire

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
Super fund returns for the year to October have recovered to an average 6.6 per cent but it's the small funds and not the majors leading the way. SelectingSuper's latest performance survey found funds have recovered half of what they lost, since at ...

UCSuper makes debut in infrastructure

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... Winton Global Alpha Fund in its alternatives portfolio. UCSuper is the Uniting Church in Australia's own corporate superannuation fund established in 1988. Initially founded in Queensland as an award-based fund when compulsory superannuation was introduced ...

AusFIN calls for 'fairer outcomes'

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... objectives. Within the charter, AusFIN called for effective regulation to support fairer outcomes in retail banking and superannuation and for a higher level of transparency in the financial services industry including fees in the market and wholesale ...

LUCRF simplifies insurance for more cover

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
LUCRF Super is encouraging its members to top up their insurance by simplifying the application process for more cover. LUCRF Super members aged between 15 and 69 can now complete a special insurance offer form and answer three simple questions to increase ...

VicSuper wins sustainability award

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
VicSuper has received the Best Sustainability Report 2010 for the second consecutive year. The super fund, of which only a small number submit a sustainability report, showed good integration of sustainability into the organisation's business practices ...

SG at 12pc will help Reserve manage inflation: Keating

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... Lateline program last night, said, "I notice the Treasurer saying overnight that the Government's committed to taking superannuation up to 12 per cent. This would be perhaps the best way we could save it; that is, instead of waiting another five or six ...

Prime Super restructures equities portfolio

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
The $1 billion-plus Prime Super has overhauled its $570 million equities portfolio and withdrew mandates with State Street, BlackRock and BGI, while the fund looks for alternative assets to add to its investments. Lachlan Baird, chief executive of Prime ...

US considers retirement reforms

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... retirement savings. It echoes the kind of debate that took place in Australia prior to establishment of the compulsory superannuation scheme in the early '90s. And if Australia's experience is anything to go by, the industry should be paying close attention ...