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Aon upgrades insurance

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
Aon Master Trust has improved its insurance for members to include unlimited death cover and higher total and permanent disablement (TPD) and income protection limits. The trust has increased the TPD benefit to $3 million and income protection has risen ...

Noonan heads AIST policy committee

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees has appointed Gerard Noonan as chair of the AIST Policy Committee. Noonan - the current chair of Media Super - replaces Sandy Grant, who was recently appointed to the panel of the Cooper Review into ...

Dixon criticises Premium buy-back scheme

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
Dixon Advisory and Superannuation Services claim the 8 per cent on-market buy back scheme proposed by the Premium Investors board will not provide enough liquidity to shareholders. Yesterday the Premium Investors board announced it plans to conduct ...

WYPF tenders for custodian

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
England's $9.2 billion West Yorkshire Pension Fund is looking for a new custodian. WYPF, the pension fund for employees in the councils of Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Kirklees and Calderdale, is looking for a banking and custodial service provider. ...

REST deploys $225m in mandates

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
The $14 billion REST Super has appointed a $150 million mandate with Babson Capital Management and $75 million to Putnam Advisory Company. During the June quarter, REST invested $150 million with structured products and distressed debt manager, Babson ...

Flawed fund analysis demands new metric: Study

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... funds," noted Wilson Sy and Kevin Lui. The authors will be presenting their paper Investment Performance Ranking of Superannuation Firms to the Colloquium of Superannuation Researchers this week. Sy and Lui argue that an alternative approach is to analyse ...

Timbercorp buy passes sole purpose test

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... Timbercorp's forestry assets, will not be in breach of the sole purpose test if the deal was to be finalised, said a superannuation expert. Michael Vrisakis, partner at law firm Freehills, said First Super - an industry fund serving the furniture, pulp ...

Tasplan signs UN PRI

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
The $1.2 billion Tasplan has become the first Tasmanian superannuation fund to become a signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI). "The Board recognise the importance of considering environmental, social and governance ...

QSuper upgrades member services

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... retirement benefits by keeping their super in one easy to manage account," she said. QSuper continues to be the superannuation fund for the Queensland Government and other government related businesses. The QSuper Board of Trustees governs QSuper, the ...

Fin services back associations

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... the FPA, ASFA and SPAA despite pressure to cut costs. The Financial Planning Association (FPA), Association of Superannuation Funds Australia (ASFA) and the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA) have all reported that membership levels ...