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Weekly switching for BOC Super

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
Corporate super fund BOC Super joins the growing list of super funds that are vastly improving their administration, with a new system that updates 'investment option' changes from monthly to weekly. In the past, BOC Super implements switches between ...

JANA recruits ex-Mercer manager

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2008
... principal, implemented consulting. Prior to joining JANA, Plant was the national administration manager standalone superannuation funds for Mercer Human Resource Consulting. In this role, Plant was responsible for 170 staff in two states, administering ...

Segmentation prompts industry warning

MICHAEL HOBBS, ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2008
... represents the retirement savings of Kim, a female who is more interested in catching up with friends then discussing superannuation. Throughout the video, Super continually attempts to talk to Kim about her superannuation savings but is constantly shunned. ...

ING takes DB admin in-house

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
... in-house, ending its previous outsourcing relationship with Aon Australia. Mark Pankhurst, ING Australia Employer superannuation head of product and marketing, said Aon told the firm it was exiting this sector of the market, which forced ING to accelerate ...

Guild selects Mercer for admin

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
... Mercer to provide administration and member services across GuildSuper, GuildPension and the Australian Child Care Superannuation Fund. Mercer started providing administration, call centre and online services to the group's members and employees at the ...

More super to move into daily pricing

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
In the future, more super funds will behave like fund managers, giving members a chance to see how much their savings are worth on a daily basis - a radical departure from today's convention of monthly, quarterly and yearly valuations. The debate surrounding ...

Coalition doesn't support higher SG

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
Forcing people to put more money into superannuation is not something that sits easily with the Liberal Party's philosophy of freedom of choice, said Shadow Treasurer, Malcolm Turnbull. Speaking at yesterday's Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) ...

Legalsuper boosts 'pure cash' with Macq index

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
Following member feedback, legalsuper created a "pure cash" option and seeded it with a $35 million investment in Macquarie's True Index Cash fund. The super fund's chief executive Andrew Proebstl said the move came about following negative returns ...

Choice-of-fund members jump 81pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
... "choice of super fund" legislation introduced three years ago. According to SuperChoice, a major clearing house for superannuation payments in Australia, around 200,000 super fund members exercised choice of fund in the 2008 financial year, compared ...

Pension deficits halts M&A activity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
A UK pension report from Mercer revealed equity market volatility has wiped off more than $130 billion of the value of FTSE 350 pension schemes, potentially hindering merger and acquisition (M&A) activity across Europe. Pension deficits was one of the ...