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AvSuper unlikely to follow govt fund mergers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
... follows a government announcement in October that trustee boards of Australian Reward Investment Alliance (ARIA), the Military Superannuation and Benefits Scheme and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme would merge under a single trustee ...

Military Super names Watson as new chief

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
Military Super has appointed ARIA's deputy chief Paul Watson as its new head, effective next month. Watson takes on the new post after spending just over a year at ARIA, where he joined as deputy chief last July. Prior to joining ARIA, he was the deputy ...

Rate Cut in the Offing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2008
... generally taking its cue from movements in oil. Crude oil opened stronger on the back of supply concerns amid the current military tension between Russia and Georgia. However, oil was unable to hold on to its gains, dropping to its lowest level since ...

Remarried war vet widows get pension

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
... after they remarried are now able to access their funds again under new government rules. According to the $3 billion Military Super, the Superannuation Act 1922, the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948 and the Defence Force Retirement and Death ...

McCullagh to depart Military Super

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
John McCullagh, chief executive of $3 billion Military Super, is retiring this year but has not ruled out continuing his involvement with Australia's wealth management industry. The Board of Military Super is on the hunt for a new chief executive to ...

AXA super tops league tables

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
... Super Fund - Balanced rounded off the top five workplace default super funds, returning -2.1 per cent over one year. Military Super - Growth, CBA Officers' Super Fund - Growth, AGEST Super - Balanced, BUSS(Q) Employer - Balanced Growth and QSuper Balanced ...

GES and Limestone launch Eastern Europe SRI fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2008
... investing in company equities that receive "significant" revenues from the production of alcoholic beverages, tobacco, military weapons or gambling related business. However, similar to the philosophy behind the United Nations Principles for Responsible ...

Attack tax with tact

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2008
... funding, get ready for the baby boomer pension wave, rebuild our national infrastructure spending, fund an ever demanding military, pay the States even higher grants, fix our national water supply and maintain our tax-free super and even the most naive ...

RSL snubs proposed super changes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
The Returned Services League (RSL) has urged the government to reject plans to change the military's retirement fund because the proposed changes could disadvantage military service people. In July last year, the Howard Government created a military ...

China response has big trade implications

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... US-China dichotomy further, while they are a major export market we offset this with huge US imports, often loaded up due to military purchases. The value of our China trade growing at 20 per cent annum just adds to the pressure. As China's demands for ...