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Big mandates, big risk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... Turtelboom, co-head of global emerging markets at London-based hedge fund GLG Partners, told trustees at last week's Conference of Major Superannuation Funds that the developing world was reverting back to a typical pattern of unrest after an abnormally ...

Capital at risk in emerging markets

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
Bart Turtelboom, co-head of global emerging markets at London-based hedge fund GLG Partners, told trustees at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds that the unrest in the Middle East is likely to spread to Latin America and parts of Asia, threatening ...

Super conference ends on a high

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
The Conference of Major Superannuation Funds ended yesterday with the highest attendance level of trustee directors and funds staff at the event so far, the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees said. Just under 1300 delegates from the not-for-profit ...

New index launched to track super knowledge

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... third of all Australians don't know what their employer pays into their super, according to research released at the Conference of Major Super Funds on the Gold Coast. The results of the first study in a biennial series, Tuning into Super, were released ...

Credit unions and super funds show same merger trends

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... Australian Central Savings & Loans director Terry McGuirk said yesterday. Speaking at a forum on fund mergers at the Conference of Major Super Funds, McGuirk said industry consolidation was inevitable. "In 1975 there were over 800 credit unions in Australia," ...

Super funds to disclose pay, raise board governance: AIST

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... asking superannuation funds to disclose executive pay and review directors of multiple boards was launched today at the Conference of Major Super Funds on the Gold Coast. The new framework, developed by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees ...

Robertson and O'Sullivan receive top honours

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... pioneer Mavis Robertson was honoured as the inaugural AIST "life member". The accolades were announced yesterday at the Conference of Major Super Funds on the Gold Coast. Fiona Reynolds, chief executive of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees ...

More time needed for Stronger Super side issues: Costello

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... Super package by June, the chair of the Federal Government's working group on the super system review has told the Conference of Major Super Funds. Paul Costello, chairman of the Stronger Super Peak Consultative Group, gave the gathering of industry ...

SG needed to save retirees: Shorten

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... days in poverty unless superannuation changes are passed, Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten has told delegates at the Conference of Major Super Funds. Minister Shorten, who flew to the Gold Coast last night to give a special Government briefing to the ...

Super exec pay on the table

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... chief investment officers are paid more than their chief executives, according to new research to be discussed at the Conference of Major Super Funds (CMSF) next week. The yet-to-be released report by McGuirk Management Consultants, a long-time provider ...