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CEOs pay steady despite GFC

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
... their base pay increase 6.2 percent to $1.95 million, according to new research from the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI). The average cash pay of a CEO of a S&P/ASX 100 company in 2008 held steady, dropping only marginally from ...

TWUSUPER rejigs investment mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
The $2 billion TWUSUPER has cut its exposure to domestic listed property trusts to focus solely on international LPTs, and is considering allocating more funds to credit, infrastructure, emerging markets and hedge fund managers. Andrew Killen, chief ...

Super funds should own fund managers: Gray

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
Superannuation funds should "own" the fund managers they award mandates to if funds wanted to slash agency costs and remove excessive choice, said industry veteran, Jack Gray. Gray, former co-head of asset allocation at GMO and current adjunct professor ...

Aus custody back on uptrend, NCS still tops

ACSA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
The Australian custody industry has posted a 3 per cent growth in total assets under custody to $1.68 trillion in the six months to June, with National Custodian Services (NCS) still the biggest player in the sector. The Australian Custodial Services ...

Agriculture wins pension fund mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
Australian superannuation funds are 18 months behind their UK counterparts which are increasingly awarding mandates to agriculture investments, said an industry expert. Charlie Blomfield, managing director of Carthona Agriculture, said increasing mandates ...

Industry funds in NRL grand final

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
... LUCRF Super for instance forming a partnership with the Australian Professional Footballers' Association to provide superannuation services to PFA members. Mecchi said the fund's five year sponsorship deal with the Melbourne Storm ends next year, and ...

SMSFs snap up blue chip shares

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
... along by the more positive signs beginning to emerge in the economy and the fact that 40 per cent of self-managed superannuation funds say they posted a positive return in the twelve months to May, said Ben Harrop, head of retail distribution at AMP ...

Trinity files $1m lawsuit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
Listed company Trinity has filed a lawsuit against former Labor Party staffer Ross Daley and his company, Veritate, in a bid to recover $1 million paid to Daley "by mistake". On 31 August, the property group received a final report on the forensic investigation ...

Asset Super pumps up insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
Asset Super is introducing automatic life stage increases to members' insurance, and boosting the sum insured to each unit of standard cover in a bid to tackle underinsurance. The $1.1 billion industry fund will increase each unit of standard cover ...

Platforms bounce back 7.9 pc

... this gap. While BT Financial group dominate the overall market, AMP is still number one in personal and corporate superannuation. Despite the robustness of the platform sector, self-managed super funds remain their biggest threat - and opportunity - ...