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Infrastructure fund beats downturn

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... per cent over a five year average. The fund's benchmark return is 8.75 per cent per annum after fees and implied superannuation tax. According to TPCG's company secretary, Independent Fund Administrators & Advisers, the fund was first set up to meet ...

Sherry attacks Hockey on super policy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
Minister for superannuation and corporate law, Senator Nick Sherry has called on new shadow treasurer Joe Hockey to drop the Liberal Party's "dangerous, uncosted and job-killing mess" of a superannuation policy. Prior to Hockey's appointment, the Opposition ...

Wide Bay tags Aviva insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
... Aviva said has more than 90 partnerships around the world generating 33 per cent of the firm's life insurance and superannuation sales.

AMP posts profits, AUM falls

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... went through the wringer. The group's Contemporary Wealth Management business, which includes financial planning, superannuation, pensions and the banking business, saw operating earnings drop by 13 per cent to $266 million after assets under management ...

Govt move aids planners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... pensions allows planners the ability to keep their client's money invested in the market. Yesterday, minister for superannuation and corporate law, Nick Sherry, and treasurer, Wayne Swan, announced the relief would apply for the second half of 2008-2009 ...

National clearing house shake-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
As the government moves closer to firming up its plans for how to deliver its national superannuation clearing house, new models are emerging regarding how it could be done. In the May Budget last year, the Rudd government announced it had allocated ...

ING wins $270m QBE mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... $350 million default corporate super fund. According to ING, the new mandate will combine QBE's three separate superannuation plans under one umbrella. QBE's main fund has approximately $270 million in assets under management and over 3,000 members. ...

QSuper appoints investment committee

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... on where they wanted the future of QSuper to go," said Vilgan. The QSuper Board of Trustees governs QSuper, the superannuation fund for over 500,000 current and former Queensland Government employees and their spouses. The fund is one of the largest ...

Don't punish fin services for GFC: Pearce

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... sector as a reaction to the GFC could be counter-productive. Chris Pearce, Shadow minister for financial services, superannuation and corporate law, yesterday told the Securities and Derivatives Industry Association that the Opposition will not support ...

Self-employed are more picky with advice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... than 5,000 were identified as self-employed. The self-employed market may become even more edgy after a Mercer Superannuation Sentiment Index Study found workers are more worried about bad markets than before. The study found the number of working Australians ...