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Easier payments for advice: ANZ

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
ANZ Staff Super is making it easier for members to access financial planning - teaming up with ANZ Financial Planning to allow payment for advice debited straight from members' super accounts. According to ANZ Staff Super, the agreement will give eligible ...

Rohan heads AustralianSuper account

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
TOWER Australia has appointed Paul Rohan as the head of the AustralianSuper Insurance Account. Rohan will be working with AustralianSuper to bring Tower's insurance arrangements to fund members. He has experience working with industry funds, master ...

CalPERS opens black book of placement agents...

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
The largest US pension fund responds to mounting concerns about the true nature of the pension fund-placement agent-fund manager relationship by revealing the details of more than 600 placement agent disclosures to the public. The disclosures - received ...

Future Fund mulls Transurban investment

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
The Future Fund is considering an investment in toll-road operator Transurban and is in preliminary discussions with the Canadian pension funds that proposed to buy the infrastructure group in October. On October 27, the Canada Pension Plan Investment ...

Planners want insurance integration

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
The days of planners dealing directly with insurers could be numbered, with new research showing soaring support for platforms and planning software to integrate insurance as part of their services. According to research by Investment Trends, the majority ...

PE firm pays NY fund $20m in compensation

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
David Leuschen, the founder of private equity firm Riverstone Holdings, has been ordered to pay US$20 million to the New York State Common Retirement Fund. US Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced an agreement with Leuschen to resolve Leuschen's ...

ETFs slash fund fees to 15bp

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
Australian trustees looking to slash fees should have a good look at the US public sector quasi-industry fund, the Thrift Savings Plan, that uses Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) to deliver total fees of just 0.15 per cent. Thrift is a US pension fund used ...

IBM replaces Russell with JANA

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
The $1.4 billion IBM Australia Limited Superannuation Fund has changed its investment manager from Russell Investments to JANA Investment Advisers. The IBM fund, which had just under $1.5 billion in funds at the end of September, previously engaged ...

GuildSuper cuts fees, boosts insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
GuildSuper is introducing a tiered fee structure and lowering fees for members, while upgrading its death and TPD insurance. GuildSuper, which is owned by Guild Financial Services, has improved members' insurance cover by providing better levels of ...

Matrix tags NBG for mortgages

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
Matrix Planning Solutions has secured a preferential mortgage aggregation arrangement with National Brokers Group (NBG). The partnership supports Matrix advisers with mortgage businesses by giving them access to NBG's lending rates as well as a preferential ...