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MLC earns health insurance advice mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
MLC Implemented Consulting has been appointed by Teachers Federation Health to provide tailored investment services and advice. Teachers Federation Health (TFH), which has over $200 million of assets under advice, joins fellow insurers HCF and nib in ...

Super assets soar with 17% annual growth rate

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
Australian super assets have rocketed up 17% in annual growth rate in ten years to US$1.3 trillion, or the equivalent of 96% of Australia's GDP, according to the Towers Watson Global Pension Assets Study. Australia's solid result was attributed to its ...

Perpetual hires ex-port manager to equities team

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
Perpetual Investments has hired ex-portfolio manager, Anthony Aboud, to join its equities team as an analyst in late February. Formerly with Ellerston Capital as portfolio manager of the Ellerston Capital Global Equity Management (GEM) Fund, Aboud will ...

OnePath advisers receive online inforce book

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
OnePath has responded to adviser demand for faster online insurance technology with the launch of a new online application product, OneView Life, to give advisers online access to their OneCare and World of Protection inforce books. The new program ...

Crowe Horwath eyes HNWI business

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
Accounting firm Crowe Horwath has appointed two new business advisory principals, Mary O'Driscoll and Jim Softsis, in a bid to expand into the high net worth individual space. The firm said the appointments were part of Crowe Horwath's strategy to build ...

Risk focus needed for sustainable investing: MLC

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
MLC Investment Management has cautioned investors with a penchant for income-heavy portfolios that greater risk diversification and sophisticated strategies are necessary at a time when term deposits on one product reached $400 million. According to ...

Macquarie partners with Class Super for SMSF offering

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
SMSF trustees and advisers will now have access to a new low cost investment offering of selected ASX-listed securities after a joint initiative by Macquarie Specialist Investments and Class Super. Available now, self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) ...

Premium Wealth adds new practice to dealer network

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
Premium Wealth Management has made another addition to its dealer group network with Pearman Financial Management joining its ranks and plans to continue to push for more firms to join its network. Pearman, a risk insurance-focused firm since 1999 ...

SuperStream compliance poses threat to funds

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
Superannuation funds need to start dealing with the impending issues coming their way as SuperStream comes into effect, the head of Towers Watson has warned, with default member definitions under MySuper also posing concerns. Since January 1, under ...

ASIC questioned over new powers

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
ASIC faced questions over the potential risks in its proposed increase in powers under FOFA during the Parliamentary Joint Committee yesterday in a session where the regulator gave preliminary results to its planning shadow shop survey with "woeful" ...