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Challenger hops on SuperStream gateway

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
... purpose-built gateway, five months ahead of the Government's 1 July timeframe for adoption. "In addition to facilitating member choice and helping consolidate multiple super accounts, the move to electronic transfers from paper-based processing will ...

HESTA MySuper option gains approval

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... APRA to offer a MySuper product. The option will be centred around the highly successful HESTA Core Pool, an investment choice that already has a long established performance track record according to analysis by SelectingSuper. "As Core Pool - with ...

SMSFs drive ASX growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... products, making up 38 per cent of total exchange assets. Exchange Traded Products (ETP) is on top of the SMSF product of choice. The sector grew 34 per cent in the last year and ASX estimates that SMSFs hold between 25 and 30 per cent of it, bourse ...

Low risk choice poses high risk on savings: survey

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
About 50 per cent of young Australians choose a superannuation investment labelled "low risk" without knowing what it means and despite the fact that these options might not earn much more than the rate of inflation, according to a poll by AustralianSuper. ...

Combined Super gets MySuper approval

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... product from 1 July this year. From 1 January 2014, employers must make contributions for employees who have not made a choice of super fund to a fund that offers a MySuper product. The fund's name change occured on 1 February this year.

Puke on the punchbowl

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
... month showed it may stop or slow its bond-buying program before hiring picks up..." But hey, I can sum up with my own "choice" phrases from the same minutes, too. "...the Committee's highly accommodative policy was seen as helping keep inflation over ...

Cbus MySuper fund gets green light

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
... Government's Stronger Super changes. "Growth (Cbus MySuper) will be a similar product to our current default offer, Growth (Cbus Choice), which is already a simple, low-cost, and high performing product in the market," said Cbus governance and risk executive ...

Credit unions mount 'social' battle against banks

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
... Australia's banking market, a level playing field for smaller players to take on the big four banks and ultimately more choice and better value for consumers." Abacus has taken the campaign to social media, providing more details on their website and ...

New centre to lead advocacy for super fund members

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
... retirement kitty. The Centre for Superannuation Consumers is due to kick off on July 1 st this year, Jenni Mack, chair of Choice and a member of the establishment committee, announced last week. The Centre is intended to become an independent voice for ...

Water scarcity a factor for resource fund managers

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
... build complex water procurement systems for large-scale projects and as a result are likely to emerge as the partners of choice in water-scarce countries seeking to benefit from their natural resources. The report noted that two of the factors that are ...