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REI and Club Plus get MySuper green light

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
... Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) for their MySuper offerings. Property industry fund REI said its existing default choice, the Trustee Super Balanced Option, will become the fund's MySuper offering. "The Trustee Super Balanced option contains all ...

Nominations in for the CIO and COO Year Awards

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
... prize for this year's winners has increased from $5,000 to $10,000 to be put towards an educational program of the winner's choice. Last year's winners were chief investment officer of multi-manager IOOF Steve Merlicek and chief operating officer for ...

CFS first retail fund to win MySuper approval

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
... Super last week. "MySuper is the next generation default super arrangement for those members who don't make an investment choice enabling members to compare funds more easily based on a few key differences - cost, investment performance and level of ...

OneVue adds Perpetual first SMA to platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013
... structure. "The new Perpetual SMA will offer advisers a complementary solution to other investment managers and increased choice," OneVue chief executive of strategic relationships Brett Marsh said. "The Perpetual SMA leverages Perpetual's capability ...

One third of SMSF advice is poor: ASIC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2013
... savings vehicles although in the wrong hands they can be high risk'. "We do not want to see SMSFs become the vehicle of choice for property spruikers. Where we see examples of unlicensed SMSF advice, or misleading marketing, we will be taking regulatory ...

Deferred annuity tax reforms safeguard retirees

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2013
... 2014 because more needs to be done to educate people about the value of these products. There is also currently limited choice in the market. "Australians have been reluctant to commit a high proportion of their retirement savings to the other annuity ...

First State Super CIO departs

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2013
... chief executive thanked Sainsbury for his contribution. "Mark was one of the original designers of the member investment choice features of First State Super back in 1992, and has, since he re-joined in 2005, continued to maintain a significant contribution ...

LUCRF ramps up advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
LUCRF Super has launched a series of seminars throughout Australia to allow its membership direct access to the fund's financial advisers. A team of 20 LUCRF advisers will travel around the country to hold weekly seminars basis, LUCRF Advice Service ...

Professional Associations Super rebrands to Kinetic Super

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
... and SMART pension will sit under the Kinetic Super brand name and will launch on 1 July 2013. It will offer a MySuper and Choice option, as well as a pension product. The 355,000 member fund has also released a transition site which includes details ...

All APRA funds to offer SMSF-style choice

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013
... the option, which effectively replicates non-property self-managed funds," he said. "For some, the decision to offer the choice is a defense against leakage to self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs), but for others it is simply more cost-effective. ...