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AvSuper unlikely to follow govt fund mergers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
... government announcement in October that trustee boards of Australian Reward Investment Alliance (ARIA), the Military Superannuation and Benefits Scheme and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme would merge under a single trustee board ...

Daily unit pricing not the answer: Henaghan

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
Pricing assets daily is counter intuitive to a super fund's aim of generating long term returns, according to Sean Henaghan from AMP Capital Investors. Henaghan, an investment director at the global investment firm, told an Investment Management Consultants ...

PASL names trustee director

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
Trustee company PASL has appointed former Accountants Super national sales manager, Ian Chisholm as trustee director for a six year term. PASL is the trustee firm which manages PASF super funds; Australian Enterprise Super, RecruitmentSuper and Accountants ...

New leaders at BT and Asgard

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
... appointments yesterday, which includes changes to the executive line-up of the advice and private banking, insurance, and superannuation and investment solutions Neil Younger will head the dealer groups and licensee select, including Magnitude and Securitor. ...

Super funds fight for human rights

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
Can super funds join forces to stop human rights abuses, improve the lives and rights of hundreds of people in just over a year? According to four Swedish pension funds, nothing is impossible. The Ethical Council of the Swedish AP-Funds, made up of ...

VFMC unveils 2009 strategies

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
The $36 billion Victorian Funds Management Corporation is aiming to outperform its benchmark by 100 basis points through a combination of vanilla style derivatives, opportunistic trades and improved internal and external capabilities. VFMC chief investment ...

Super funds eye cash

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
While fund managers are now slowly testing the waters of the equity markets, leading super funds are still putting their money in cash on the back of investor demand. The $4.2 billion Equipsuper invests cash in a variety of assets including bank deposits. ...

HOST-PLUS drops five-day rule

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
HOST-PLUS has removed the five-day investment switching rule so members can change investment options on the last day of the month and be moved into that strategy the next day. Previously HOST-PLUS members needed to submit any changes to their investment ...

Qld planner named Telstra Business Woman finalist

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... planning licence through ASIC in a record three days. She is also currently writing a plain English book about superannuation for novice investors. "With the hard times in the share market at the moment, we're refining our client service and procedures ...

Nominations open for inaugural ACSA awards

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2008
... people and hold securities in excess of $1.3 trillion in custody and under administration on behalf of Australian superannuation funds and other institutional investors. Members provide traditional custody services such as safekeeping of assets and settlement ...