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Twice as many super funds now offering planning advice

New figures released by Rainmaker reveal that the number of superannuation funds offering financial planning to members has doubled over three years, with more industry funds set to take it up. Figures from Rainmaker's new online super fund comparison ...

ASSET snares Anglican Provident Fund and shifts to alternatives

ASSET Super has announced it will take on board the Anglican Provident Fund whilst also making a significant commitment to alternative investments. The transfer of the fund to ASSET Super should be completed in late April. The fund decided to stop operating ...

Bravura momentum rolls on with Essential

Bravura Solutions Limited (Bravura) has added to recent acquisitions by buying a computer systems specialist, Essential Computer Systems (Essential), to drive their online superannuation and adviser support business systems. The purchase of Essential ...

McPlanning: CBA unveil first one stop shop

... capture the average passer by on the street. The shop offers financial planning advice, ranging in price from $220 for a basic plan to $1650 for more comprehensive plans and also offers customers a Commsec specialist, to open trading accounts, and an ...

Platypus piggybacks on fund heavyweight Aust Unity

It is a match made in heaven as top-performing fund Platypus Asset Management and fund giant Australian Unity Investments (AUI) form a joint venture that plays on each other's strengths. The joint venture will be named Platypus Asset Management, half ...

Kingston Capital to launch in-house SAF service

WA based financial planning group Kingston Capital has poached a former senior head at Australian Executor Trustee to help build their own small APRA fund (SAF) service. Peter Burgess has taken on the role as the group's General Manager Superannuation ...

Retirees to keep working and leave nothing for the kids

Forty-eight per cent of retirees plan to live off the pension and more than two-thirds of Australians will spend their money rather than save it for their children. These are the findings emanating from two studies, one published by AXA and the other ...

Triguboff appoints new investment manager at MIR

MIR has appointed a new head of investments to work closely with MIR's CEO and ex-investment banker, Michael Triguboff. Marian Carr has taken up the position, deserting her old posting as investment manager at Harwood Superannuation Fund, subsidiary ...

Canadian pensions get leg up from energy: RBC Dexia

Canadian pension plans have posted an 11.7 per cent gain in the year ending December 2005 propped by the nation's energy sector, based on the latest survey by RBC Dexia Investor Services. The London-based pension administration and global custody firm ...

PrefSure deal sees Tower focus on master trusts

TOWER have bought out PrefSure Holdings and Life Limited (PrefSure) from South African group, Liberty, for $145 million as they push their strategic growth towards life insurance for master trusts. TOWER managing director, Jim Minto, said that the key ...