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Super assets drop to $1.03trn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... their assets fell only 7 per cent during the last year, followed by industry funds that fell 9 per cent, corporate master trusts that fell 12 per cent, public sector funds that fell 14 per cent, corporate funds that fell 16 per cent and retail funds ...

APRA to monitor investment options

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... super funds, a transition that is expected to force APRA regulated entities to provide data on the specific funds, master trusts and products they offer in the market. Currently many institutions report on hypothetical pooled vehicles that many groups ...

Budget deficit squeezes pension promises

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... reforms that saw contributions double in 2006-07 as high income earners poured money into self-managed super funds and master trusts to beat the deadlines. "A pensioner is not out there earning $150,000 a year. There is a question about fairness in Australia ...

Platforms should merge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
Master trusts and wraps should be consolidated into a single government run platform to drive greater efficiencies and lowers costs. Wade Tubman, a director, and Annie Liao, a senior manager in the actuarial practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, told ...

SuperChoice buys SuperConnect

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... the superannuation provider without manual intervention. SuperConnect's software is currently used by public offer master trusts, industry super funds, employer groups directly and payroll bureaus including Australian Wealth Management, Skandia and the ...

Top and bottom super performance differ by 36pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
... funds. This contrasts with their previous league tables that showed peformance of the sub-segments: industry funds, master trusts, corporate funds and public offer funds. The release of the data has sparked much industry debate with the financial services ...

Master trusts and industry funds drive risk growth

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
Employer master trusts and industry funds will provide more risk insurance over the next 15 years, according to Rice Warner Actuaries research. The actuary's research found life risk insurance sold within employer master trusts is expected to grow at ...

Corporate super adjusts to crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
Corporate master trusts are going back to the negotiating table to cater for clients that have suffered large-scale redundancies due to the market downturn. Greg Healy, AMP's director of corporate superannuation, said that there have been cases where ...

FPWS unveils new SMA service

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
... "[Managed accounts] are highly tax efficient, provide direct ownership of shares and can be cheaper than managed funds, master trusts and wrap accounts," said Matthew Murphie, managing director of First Prudential Markets. FPWS, along with OneVue Limited ...

Instos pour $370m into Apostle fund

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
A number of public sector and industry super funds, multi managers and master trusts have pumped a combined $370 million into a specialist Apostle fund that aims to capitalise on the undervalued US senior bank loans market. The Apostle Loomis Sayles ...