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Hostplus gets a 5 Apple rating

Industry fund Hostplus has been awarded a 5 Apples personal superannuation rating from research firm Chant West Financial Services. The rating was based on the fund's ability to meet the 'highest quality fund' requirements with the highest weighting ...

Adviser business moves to Garvan Financial Planning

Adviser group Investment Managers Pty Ltd has joined MLC's dealer group Garvan Financial Planning moving from the Commonwealth Bank backed Financial Wisdom. Investment Managers principal Shane Rose says the move was based on Garvan's ability to support ...

Mercer warns fund members to assess asset allocations re Choice

Mercer Human Resource Consulting has urged investors to focus on the underlying asset allocation rather than purely on the current performance of a superannuation fund when deciding on the fund they want to belong to under the new Choice regime. Mercer ...

Lonsec approves of Mariner's foray into US property

Lonsec has given the thumbs up to Mariner's recent foray into the American property trust market, providing an 'Upper Recommended' rating to its recent offering, the Mariner American Property Income Trust (MAPIT). The rating follows the existing AA ...

ASIC nabs SMSF adviser

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has shut down a self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) adviser from conducting any business relating to superannuation. This is the second SMSF shut down by the regulator since its superannuation ...

Aviva and Wide Bay join forces to buy Financial Technology

Aviva Australia and Wide Bay Australia have teamed up to each acquire a 25 per cent stake in Financial Technology Securities giving both companies a collective shareholding in Financial Technology of 50.01 per cent. Financial Technology is a financial ...

CitiStreet launches new clearing house

CitiStreet has launched a clearing house service for superannuation funds following the choice of fund legislation. Under the choice of fund legislation, employers are required to send employee superannuation payments to different superannuation funds. ...

Government fund moves to straight through processing

The Tasmanian based Retirement Benefits Fund (RBF) has chosen DST International (DSTi) to provide straight through processing (STP) solutions for both its staff and members following a review of its business processes in 2004. "We realised we needed ...

Coin software signs deal with Commonwealth

Coin software will provide the Commonwealth Bank's 3,000 internal and tied financial advisers and support staff with its software solutions under a two year contract term with rolling two year terms to follow. The contract will also extend to the bank's ...

Macquarie looks to India as it wraps up $15 billion

Macquarie Bank will enter the Indian market establishing a specialist funds management business as part of its overall presence in that market. Subject to full regulatory approval, the bank will establish a securities brokerage business in Mumbai with ...