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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
... after dropping in August. Orders rose 0.9 per cent in September amid increases in orders for autos, heavy machinery and military aircraft rose. Analysts had expected an increase of 0.8 per cent, according to Thomson Reuters. At settlement, the Dow Jones ...

More benefits for Military Super

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
Military Superannuation and Benefits Scheme members will receive improved death and invalidity benefits following a government initiative to backdate benefits payments in line with recent changes to the compulsory retirement age for ADF members. Greg ...

Military Super revamps strategic asset allocation

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
Military Super has overhauled the strategic asset allocation throughout four of its five investment options following the fund's annual investment review. Starting 15 October, the fund, which had $3.1 billion in assets under management at the end of ...

RSL calls for super revamp

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2009
The Returned Services League (RSL) is calling for the government to address how it calculates military pensions after an alternative pension index rose by almost double the consumer price index in the first half of this year. Bill Crews, national president ...

Pillar tenders for RBF-TAS deal

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
Pillar Administration is tendering to provide administration services to RBF Tasmania, which had $3 billion in funds at the end of June last year. RBF-TAS is in the process of selecting its new administrator. The fund currently manages its administration ...

ESI Super and Workcover NSW bag CIMA scholarships

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... institutional business with Tyndall Investment Management. Former recipients of the FEAL CIMA scholarships include: Sue Knowles, Military Super, Greg Nolan, Caresuper, Cambell Clarke, Equipsuper and Paul Coenraads, Auscoal. The Fund Executives Association ...

China's smoking gun

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
... concerned they have just announced plans to spend an estimated $200-300 billion over the next twenty years on a massive military build up that includes 100 joint strike fighters, a new fleet submarines, naval helicopters, armored defence vehicles, cruise ...

Applications open for FEAL CIMA Scholarship

... accreditation exam. Previous fund executives to have attained the CIMA designation include: Damian Hill, REST; Sue Knowles, Military Super; and Paul Coenraads, AUSCOAL. "The FEAL CIMA scholarship demonstrates FEAL's commitment to ongoing education and ...

Top and bottom super performance differ by 36pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
... workplace super option included the AXA Australia Simple Super - Guaranteed Plus which returned just over four per cent and Military Super - Growth option which lost 6.7 per cent during 2008. In contrast, the BT Lifetime Super Employer Plan - Multi Manager ...

Same super rules for same sex couples

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
... benefits to same-sex partners. But from January next year, the governing rules of a number of Commonwealth civilian and military superannuation schemes, including the judicial pension schemes, will be changed so that by law, death benefits will be available ...