Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 231 - 240 of 503 results for "Master Trust"

Super fund leaps into life stage insurance

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
Corporate superannuation fund Aon Master Trust is set to launch a pro-active campaign to ensure its members have appropriate insurance cover for their stage of life. From July 1, members of the $2 billion fund whose life cycle hits a specific trigger ...

Plum lands $300m Lend Lease super mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
... Lend Lease Corporation's $300 million superannuation fund, which will move from its own fund management to Plum's master trust. This is the seventh fund to transition across to Plum's services in the past 18 months, bringing a collective $4.4 billion ...

Advisers hampered by conflicted platforms

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
... institutional platforms are compromising their first duty to their client, independent advisers have said. Out of 26 leading master trust and wrap platforms studied by research firm Investment Trends for its 2010 Investment Trends Platform Report, only ...

Back office firm eyes super growth

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... fund clients. SuperBPO provides member administration, unit pricing and accounting to industry, corporate and retail master trust super funds. It has added two new clients since the arrival of chief executive officer Michael Houlihan in July 2010 and ...

Innovative platforms create $397 bn industry

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
... platform growth. The 2010 Investment Trends Platform Report is based on detailed analyst reviews comparing 26 leading master trust and wrap platforms across over 440 aspects of their service offerings.

Super fund returns fall again to 5 per cent

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
Volatility is back in vogue for super fund rolling 12 month returns as they have again fallen back to 5.0 per cent for the 12 months to end March 2011. Three and five year returns are even less impressive at just 1.3 and 2.3 per cent per annum respectively. ...

Super fund returns fall again to 5 per cent

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
Volatility is back in vogue for super fund rolling 12 month returns as they have again fallen back to 5.0 per cent for the 12 months to end March 2011. Three and five year returns are even less impressive at just 1.3 and 2.3 per cent per annum respectively. ...

Pooled funds lose cash

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
Money is flowing out of managed funds and into bank accounts and independently managed accounts (IMAs), industry watchers said yesterday. According to Rainmaker research, $86.4 billion dollars flowed into bank deposits in the December quarter last year ...

Platforms bounce back after GFC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
Platform funds under administration (FUA) by end December 2010 reached $397 billion, just below its pre-GFC $400 billion 2007 peak, meaning that as terrible as the GFC fallout was, it only set back Australia's wealth creation plans by two years. The ...

Towers Watson builds investment team

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... Retirement Service Centre in Melbourne and chaired the trustee board which had fiduciary responsibility for KiwiSaver (its master trust) and the New Zealand wholesale funds management business. In addition to Newfield, Towers Watson Investments has also ...