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New ASFA course focuses on post-retirement

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
... retirement planning, social security payments, aged care and estate planning. It is aimed at administrators and contact centre staff working for the funds and service providers, product development managers, financial advisers and investment managers. ...

HUB24 sets up white label platform for Wilson HTM

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
HUB24 has signed an agreement with Wilson HTM to implement and distribute a white label version of the HUB24 investment and superannuation platform to the firm's clients. The platform offers a wide range of investments including shares, managed funds ...

Platinum AM appoints independent director

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
The board of Platinum Asset Management has appointed a non-executive independent director. Stephen Menzies will be Platinum's fourth non-executive independent directors and will join the other four executive directors at the company's board. Menzies ...

Telstra Super lawyer wins WiS scholarship

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
Telstra Super senior legal counsel Sharyn Cowley has been awarded one of four inaugural Mavis Robertson Scholarship Programs, offered by advocacy group Women in Super. The awards were announced to coincide with International Women's Day on Sunday 8 ...

MLC multi-manager funds get highest rating

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
MLC has been awarded the highest rating - '5 Apples' - by research house ChantWest for its range of multi-manager funds. ChantWest identified the flagship 'Horizon 4 - Balanced' fund, which returned 6.8% per annum in the 10 years to June 2014 (after ...

Leveraged Equities shortens name

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
Margin lending firm Leveraged Equities has renamed its business Leveraged, to reflect a broadening of its product range beyond equities. Leveraged executive Alexandra Tullio said the re-brand was about more than formalising what people have been calling ...

ECT reforms pass Senate

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
The Parliament has passed the latest amendments to the superannuation excess contribution tax (ECT), implementing the final piece of legislation to reform the unpopular tax, says Taxpayers Australia Limited. "The rationale for ECT made sense at the ...

Retail super bounces back

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
The SelectingSuper MySuper (ie Workplace) rolling 12 month performance index made a remarkable recovery during January as it surged 320 basis points to reach 11.5%, with retail MySuper products stretching their short term segment lead to 0.7%. Three ...

Future Fund alternatives head joins Hedge Fund Standards Board

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
Future Fund's head of debt and alternatives David George has joined the board of the Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB). The HFSB said the appointment emphasises the important role of sovereign wealth funds in promoting better practices in the hedge ...

Equip Super partners with SuperFriend

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
Equip Super has partnered with SuperFriend to offer workplace mental health and wellbeing programs. The industry super fund has added the programs to its range of employer and member services, which focuses on forging alliances that can broaden the ...