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Vision Super banking goes live

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
Members of the $4.2 billion Vision Super can now access their allocated pension funds directly through ATMs and Visa Debit cards with its recently launched banking service. Vision Super teamed up with Cuscal last year to provide the super fund's members ...

Joy Palmer Foundation established to promote ESG

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... established a foundation in honour of former trustee and chairperson Joy Palmer that will support young people within the superannuation industry interested in promoting sustainability and governance. Joy Palmer was a well-known industry leader who passed ...

Plato receives $20m inflow

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
Plato Investment Management has received over $20 million of inflows from clients in the past month, breaking a cash drought that lasted more than half a year. Don Hamson, Plato Investment Management managing director, said inflows had remained stagnant ...

Super is for income, not wealth

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
... Don Ezra, finance author and US-based global investment strategy director at Russell, said the main reason for superannuation got lost in translation as the industry evolved. "The purpose of all that saving is really to generate income. It's not just ...

Disclosing conflicts not enough: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
A draft Prudential Practice Guide on conflicts of interest released by APRA has fired a shot over the bow of every entity they regulate, warning that simply disclosing conflicts of interest is not a valid defence. Instead, entities must demonstrate ...

AMIST narrows mandate line-up

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
The Australian Meat Industry Superannuation Trust (AMIST) has dropped Legg Mason and PM Capital from its fund manager line-up as part of its investment rationalisation strategy. The $9 million Legg Mason emerging markets mandate was cut two months ago ...

MTAA withdraws insurance freebies

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
The $5.5 billion MTAA Superannuation Fund is axing its long-standing "six month rule" on insurance cover for certain members, citing it is "not equitable" to the rest of the fund's membership base. According to a statement on the MTAA website, the fund ...

Irish pensions suffer 25pc loss

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
Irish pension scheme assets axed nearly a quarter of its value in 2008 - losing nearly $38 billion to December last year. According to the latest Irish Association of Pension Funds' annual asset allocation survey, the assets of pension schemes in the ...

AIRC sets more default super funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
... Relations Commission (AIRC) has today released the second tranche of revised Awards including details of their default superannuation funds. The revisions are part of the Award Modernisation process commenced last year at the request of the government ...

Supercorp buys MYOB super software

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
Brisbane based, Supercorp Australia, has bought the superannuation software business from MYOB. MYOB supports hundreds of accounting firms across Australia in lodging statutory accounts for self managed super funds (SMSFs). Kurt Groeneveld, Supercorp ...