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Overseas pensions shine in communications

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... Spence Johnson, an investment marketing intelligence firm, was hired to assist in the process and collected 90 defined contribution communications campaigns. This unearthed a number of successful communications campaigns - especially from the US. One ...

QIC adopts lifecycle investing

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
... of the traditional 'set and forget' approaches to default option design. "With most super fund members in defined contribution plans, the recent effects of the global financial crisis have illustrated the dangers of taking a static approach to asset ...

Report points to low cost fund future

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
... per cent of household mutual fund assets were held through financial advisers and 24 per cent were held in defined contribution plans in 2007. This alone does not explain the reasons for a greater focus on overall costs. The reason behind this trend ...

Macquarie launches lifetime income product

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... out of savings before they die," he said. "Although Australia has led the world in developing a mandatory defined contribution retirement savings system - superannuation - we trail many other markets including the US and the UK in providing longevity ...

Fees secondary to return: Qantas Super

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
... and 0.47 per cent on investment management fees. This 0.71 per cent fee is much lower than an average US defined contribution fund fee, which is around 1.02 per cent. Qantas Super is one of Australia's largest corporate superannuation funds with $5.5 ...

Research finds country bias in pension asset allocation

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
Yes, we all live in a global community thanks to the web, but according to new research, where you live physically makes a big difference to your retirement savings. New research from consulting giant Towers Watson found that working in Paris, Tokyo ...

Towers Watson to fix post-retirement blues

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
Towers Watson is set to design longevity strategies that best suit super funds and insurers - ahead of the three million Australian baby boomers expected to retire over the next 20 years. Towers Watson (the former Watson Wyatt Australia merging with ...

Mercer urges STP implementation

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
Mercer has called for UK defined contribution pension plan trustees to adopt straight through processing (STP) systems or risk significant financial pain. STP involves the automation of communication about investment transactions between administrators ...

More room to slash super fees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
... corporate, retail or industry. Some analyses were also split between fees charged by defined benefit (DB) versus defined contribution (DC) plans. The key finding is that many funds are, for the most part, below or just above the magic number of "below ...

Clock ticking for UK defined benefit schemes

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2009
... pension schemes expect to close them to all employees in the next three years, forcing employees to rely on defined contribution schemes instead. Watson Wyatt research found more than one million employees using a defined benefit pension may be forced ...