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Women in Super NSW scholarship winners named

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
... Jonceski, First State Super client relationship manager Louise Micallef and National Australia Bank director of superannuation funds Lorraine Roberts. The scholarship programme is designed to enhance professional skills and encourage the appointment ...

SEC adviser exams could cost US$310m

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
A US study has found that improved investment adviser examination requirements could cost their funds industry US$310 million. Training consultant 'RIA in a Box' released its analysis last week following sentiment that a Bill before Congress to 'user ...

Super fees drop as fund war rolls on

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
... products and the fact that MySuper and FoFA have forced adviser fees (1%) out of the equation. "MySuper has meant that retail funds are aggressively competing in the default space and that wasn't always the case, but retail funds are not going to be ...

Questions raised about independence of van Eyk board

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... Thomas then explained that the uncertainty created by an as yet undisclosed transaction in one of the company's Blueprint funds, meant that it was not the "appropriate time to be seeking new board members." "We do certainly intend to increase the numbers ...

Brumbie: Misguided attacks on SMSFs, enough already

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... produced with his four election wins, was nevertheless too loyal to his presidential comrade-in-arms. And third was hedge funds. I know they are bad because most times people lose money on the stock, bond or currency markets, journalists usually say ...

Super Mario to the rescue (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... main lending rate by 10 basis points to a record low 0.05%; it's raised the interest rate it charges banks to park their funds at the central bank by making the negative deposit rate (minus 0.1%) more negative (minus 0.2%); and, lowering the marginal ...

Who will buy NAB Asset Servicing?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... they were to take over NAS, they would instantly acquire an extra $630 billion-worth of assets under custody. With super funds putting out custody tenders on a regular basis, there is no guarantee that those clients would stay with State Street; but ...

Executives lose sleep over changing regulation

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... Administration & Custody Review'. In a survey of 110 senior executives working in Australian asset management firms, super funds, BNP Paribas also found that almost 90% of respondents have incurred increasing costs as a result of government regulation. ...

Sixteen Aussie funds make top 300 pension funds list

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
Sixteen Australian super funds, including first-timer HOSTPLUS, have made it into Towers Watson's list of the 300 largest global pension funds, which was released today. However, the weakening Australian dollar saw most of the Australian funds fall ...

Activist Simon Sheikh launches fossil fuel free super fund

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... ensuring their super is not contributing to the problem and instead forms part of the solution," he said, adding that some funds marketing themselves as 'ethical' or 'sustainable' still invest in coal and coal seam gas. In launching the new fund, Future ...