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SERF selects JANA as asset consultant

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
Stevedoring Employees Retirement Fund (SERF) appointed JANA Investment Advisers as its asset consultant ahead of its proposed merger with the Seafarers Retirement Fund (SRF). Previously, SERF employed FuturePlus as its asset consultant and then employed ...

KiwiSaver to drive fin literacy

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
... invest and impact positively on the overall economy. "You only need to look at Australia which has had compulsory superannuation for 20 years and has over one trillion dollars in superannuation funds under management," says Oliver. As New Zealanders' ...

US instos ramp up alts to 22pct

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
Top US institutional investors are expected to allocate more than 22 per cent of their overall portfolios to alternative assets in two years, well above their historic average of single digit allocation, a new survey found. JPMorgan Asset Management's ...

Slash fees with national default fund

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, in a paper he presented to last week's Australian Colloqium of Superannuation Researchers titled " Toward a national default option for low cost superannuation ", noted the default fund would provide an ...

Plum reloads for HNW clients

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... up five per cent of the firm's client base. All Plum financial planners operate on a fee for service basis for superannuation and investment advice. In addition, Plum used MLC's Fundamental Pension product to create its own pension product for its members. ...

LUCRF makes history

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
The superannuation industry doesn't often talk about its history but 2008 marks a century since the introduction of age pensions and thirty years since the birth of LUCRF, Australia's first modern super fund. The revolution began a century ago when ...

Businesses weighed down by choice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
A survey of payroll managers found 60 per cent of respondents found the choice-of-fund process frustrating and labour-intensive, costing an average business tens of thousands of dollars each year on administration spend. The joint survey conducted by ...

FPA backs 'advice within super' review

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
... representing majority of the financial planners in the country welcomed the government's call for a review of the superannuation system. The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has said it will actively participate in any review of the ...

Qantas Super raises insurance cover

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
The $6.6 billion Qantas Superannuation fund has introduced minimum death cover to its default funds. According to a Qantas Super newsletter, minimum death cover will be provided for funds which are used as the "default" fund under the current Choice ...

Boost savings and cut interest rates

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
... national savings given that standard definitions are very banking system oriented and how it's not always clear that superannuation and wealth management flows and unrealised investment income are appropriately taken into account. Moreover, while boosting ...