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Cbus hires Frontier and AustralianSuper execs

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... Australian Super and working in its marketing department. Constable has post-graduate qualifications, is experienced in superannuation marketing and related campaigns. Mark Ward also joins Cbus as communications manager. He has worked at local, state ...

Coalition still unconvinced on 12 pc SG

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
Coalition superannuation spokesperson and shadow assistant treasurer Senator Mathias Cormann has given the strongest signal yet that the opposition is unlikely to support lifting SG to 12 per cent. Senator Cormann said Bill Shorten, the Assistant Treasurer ...

MLC stars in NAB $4.2bn profit

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
... as volatility reduced from 2009's high levels. NAB chief executive, Cameron Clyne, credited MLC & NAB Wealth's superannuation and insurance market share, strong net inflows, good underlying cost management and increase in adviser numbers as key factors ...

HOSTPLUS unveils new TV ads

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
Industry fund HOSTPLUS has launched a new advertising campaign to attract more members to its fund. The campaign will include a series of three television commercials (TVCs), the first of which went to air this week. The ads will focus on an emotional ...

Rare opportunities in US real estate

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
Australian super funds could be missing out on a once in a lifetime opportunity to add attractively priced, high yielding US property to their portfolios. So says Sentinel Real Estate Corporation, which has approximately US$4.5 billion in US property ...

SOA too much, too confusing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
... to explain to clients why an adviser has made certain recommendations. Yet too many of them try to explain the superannuation, taxation and investment systems in their entirety while also serving as a business brochure. "Don't clog up SOAs. Use them ...

Top fund CEOs join climate change panel

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
... of a carbon price in Australia. The panel includes Ian Silk, of AustralianSuper, the country's largest industry superannuation fund, and Mark Lazberger, of Colonial First State Global Asset Management, the country's second largest funds manager. It will ...

Industry could face another inquiry

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
... competition among the big four banks - a move that could trigger another inquiry involving Australia's trillion dollar superannuation industry. Media reports over the weekend quote the shadow treasurer calling for a full-blown inquiry into the Australian ...

Westscheme sells $300m Brisbane property

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
The $3.2 billion Westscheme has sold its stake in Brisbane Square for $300 million to Telstra Super and the Charter Hall Core Plus Office Fund. According to a media statement yesterday, Westscheme announced the $300 million enterprise value meant the ...

Advisers must fight for the future, not the past: AFA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
The fight over commissions on investment products and superannuation is over. Advisers must stop debating over them and switch their focus to influencing their future. Opening the 2010 AFA annual conference in front of a packed auditorium with almost ...