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State Street continues British Airways mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
State Street has won a mandate to continue servicing the British Airways Pension Trustees's 14 (A$23) billion UK pension fund. State Street will provide British Airways with custody, accounting, performance measurement, securities lending, trade matching ...

Changes to borrowing brings peace of mind

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
... arrangements under the Corporations Act means shonky promoters will be shut out of the market and self managed super fund (SMSF) trustees can have peace of mind when using the products. Chris Bowen, minister for financial services, superannuation and ...

Caution drives SMSFs to remain in cash: survey

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
More than half of self managed super fund (SMSF) trustees are not planning to change their cash allocation, according to a new survey, despite more than a third of respondents stating over half their assets are parked in the asset class. The Ubank survey ...

Women make up 30 pc of trustees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
... those companies and that may include the de-listing of them, or court action." Rainmaker has found that 30 per cent of trustees on industry and government super funds are women. But as low as this ratio seems, it's still six-times higher than the low ...

Westpoint investors win $13.5m compensation

ASIC RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
ASIC has successfully obtained court approval of a $13.5-million settlement from State Trustees on behalf of Westpoint investors. The class action initiated by ASIC against Melbourne based trustee company, State Trustees, relates to investments made ...

Berends joins QSuper investment committee

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
The QSuper Board of Trustees has appointed Marvin & Palmer Associates principal Lorraine Berends to QSuper's investment committee. Berends joins specialist committee members - Michael Rice and Ian Macoun, working with QSuper trustees, Steve Ryan, Bob ...

Pensions fail to direct manager voting

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... corporate reporting on environmental and social risks. O'Neill stressed that investors should be more involved - considering trustees have a fiduciary duty to oversee how the proxies attached to their funds' stocks are voted. Other results from the survey ...

Russell wins OneSteel mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
Russell has snagged one of the biggest master trust mandates when OneSteel outsourced its $1.1 billion corporate fund to the Russell Super Solution Master Trust (SSMT). The OneSteel superannuation fund has almost 11,000 members. Russell Investments ...

KPMG sounds alarm on admin fraud

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
Super fund trustees must make sure they have the option to audit their administration provider's performance, at short notice, to minimise the risk of fraud, according to KPMG. Speaking at the Self Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia ...

More SMSFs comply with ATO rules

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
... taxation at the Australian Tax Office, has commended the self managed super fund (SMSF) industry after the number of SMSF trustees that lodged their returns on time rose 11 per cent on the prior lodgement period. Speaking at the SMSF Professionals' Association ...