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One in four retail fund members to switch: CHOICE

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2010
One in four retail super fund members are considering switching to other super options because they are dissatisfied with the fees, customer service or investment options, CHOICE research found. Choice's survey of 1,400 members in June showed 23 per ...

Delays for Military Super merger

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
The merger of the Military Super board, the Defence Force Retirement & Benefits Scheme Authority, and the ARIA Board will have to wait as the Senate did not get a chance to vote on the bill prior to the recess. Military Super noted in a web update that ...

Cosgrove and McCullagh nominated to CSC

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
General Peter Cosgrove and former Military Super chief executive John McCullagh have been nominated as member representative directors for the Government's proposed Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation. Both Cosgrove and McCullagh were nominated ...

Man charged in multi-million dollar fraud

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
Bandidos, a former J.P.Morgan employee and a multi-million dollar swindle of the Commonwealth Superannuation Scheme - one man has so far pleaded guilty to a money laundering charge in a $150 million bank fraud case. According to reports from the Sydney ...

Pillar tenders for RBF-TAS deal

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
Pillar Administration is tendering to provide administration services to RBF Tasmania, which had $3 billion in funds at the end of June last year. RBF-TAS is in the process of selecting its new administrator. The fund currently manages its administration ...

Fed's unfunded liabilities balloon to $80bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
... the Department of Finance in Canberra, show the combined unfunded liability for the Public Sector Super and Commonwealth Super Schemes scheme is now $80 billion. In 1999 the unfunded liability was estimated at only $46 billion. Driving the liability ...

Same super rules for same sex couples

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
The government has introduced new superannuation rules that will address what has long been viewed as discrimination against same-sex de facto couples when it came to superannuation death benefits. Under existing Commonwealth superannuation and pension ...

SnowyHydro snow job?

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2006
... has a $55 million unfunded superannuation liability due to its legacy with the defined benefit PSS and CSS Commonwealth super funds. NSW Finance Minister, John Della Bosca, speaking on ABC television, has unsurprisingly rejected criticism of the sale ...

PSS and CSS drink up their Brandywine

The Public Sector and Commonwealth Super (PSS and CSS) funds have awarded a near half a billion dollar mandate to Brandywine Asset Management for their fixed income allocation. Brandywine will be the PSS/CSS funds' fourth fixed interest manager alongside ...

Insider trading fears undermining investor confidence

... Steve Gibbs, spokesperson for the group who sponsored the research, who is also CEO of the Public Sector and Commonwealth Super Schemes (PSS/CSS), one of the sponsors of the research, said Australian companies still have a way to go when it comes to ...