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Trustees must not be victimised: APRA

APRA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
... employees and terminating the engagement of the auditor of QRTSA, both of whom were also trustee directors of a superannuation fund linked to QRTSA, Baldock committed acts of victimisation contrary to section 68 of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) ...

Frontier Software signs with Payment Adviser

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
... solutions tech firm Frontier Software has selected Payment Adviser's SuperPay system to enable the payment of overnight superannuation contributions. The system allows one day processing times for member's contributions. "Regular employee contributions ...

More reform through reviews: Bowen

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
... trepidation but rather as opportunities to improve the current system, said Chris Bowen, minister for financial services, superannuation and corporate law. Bowen, who addressed an audience at yesterday's Investment and Financial Services Association ...

VicSuper wins ACCA sustainability award

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
VicSuper has been announced the winner of ACCA's annual Sustainability Reporting Awards. VicSuper received the top nod in three categories; Best Sustainability Report, Best SME Report and Best Report in the Financial Service sector awards at the recent ...

TWUSUPER ramps up fund features

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
A mid-sized Australian superannuation fund has revamped its investment switching, investment options and crediting rates arrangements to provide members with more choice and efficiency. TWUSUPER, which had $1.85 billion in funds under management at ...

Heffron and Martin joins Cooper Review

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... as part-time members. Heffron is a principal of Heffron Ltd, a firm which specialises in providing self-managed superannuation fund services. She is also a member of the Tax Office's National Tax Liaison Group (Superannuation). Martin was a former chief ...

Intra-fund advice relief opens super funds to lawsuits

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... a planning expert. Last month the federal government endorsed ASIC's decision to provide legislative relief to superannuation trustees when providing "limited personal advice" to their fund members. This means super funds can answer basic questions such ...

Decimal targets super intra-fund advice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
Financial planning software provider, Decimal has teamed up with two super funds to allow the funds to provide intra-fund advice cheaper and more effectively. Jan Kolbusz, managing director at Decimal, said the firm is working with super funds to allow ...

AMIST tilts $28m into equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
The $685 million meat industry super fund AMIST has added $28 million to four existing Australian and international equity fund mandates. John Livanas, chief executive at AMIST, said the fund topped-up a number of existing mandates to increase the fund's ...

UCSuper appoints IUS as insurer

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
The Uniting Church Superannuation Plan has appointed International Underwriting Services as its new insurer. UCSuper, which had $244 in funds under management at 31 December last year according to Rainmaker Information, signed a deal to bring on IUS ...