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State Street wins Morgan Stanley mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
State Street has been appointed by Morgan Stanley Investment Management to provide investment manager operations outsourcing services for $300 billion in assets. Building on its 40-year relationship, State Street will provide MSIM with global outsourcing ...

ComSuper faces executive and admin reforms

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
... the private sector," said Fiona Reynolds, chief executive of industry body, AIST. Meanwhile, the Government is also outsourcing the administration services of the Public Sector Superannuation Accumulation Plan (PSSap). The decision follows a review by ...

Super funds need to reset agenda: Cooper

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
... management activities, and how the industry continues to confuse the consumption of investment products and investing. Outsourcing in turns lead to ambiguity and lack of accountability, a condition that hardly favours the members. He also attacked the ...

Adviser recruitment plagues super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
... attracting and maintaining qualified advisers, said an industry expert. David Anderson, business leader of Mercer's outsourcing business for Asia Pacific, told an ASFA conference audience yesterday that one of the supply side challenges super funds are ...

ING outsources research to two firms

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
ING Australia is outsourcing its financial product and fund research to two external providers in January as Financial Facts shuts its operations by the end of the year. According to a press statement from ING Australia, the firm recently conducted ...

SuperChoice signs TOWER super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
... a growing list of corporate super fund providers that have switched from doing choice-of-fund admin internally to outsourcing the role to clearinghouse specialist, SuperChoice. Under the deal, SuperChoice will handle contributions processing, member ...

Mercer urges STP implementation

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
... trading information is accurate and up to date," said Claire Ross, head of service implementation at Mercer's pension outsourcing business. "Pension scheme risk has become a serious business issue at the corporate and trustee level. As defined contribution ...

Astarra reaches $1 billion milestone

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2009
... management milestone. In a press statement, Sydney-based Astarra attributed the growth of the firm to financial advisers outsourcing their asset management business to Astarra, and its investment strategy. "Our biggest point of difference is not the ...

Mercer restructures outsourcing business, Walters exits

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
Mercer is revamping its outsourcing business resulting in several new roles being created and senior executives including financial advice leader Scott Walters leaving the firm. As part of the changes, Mercer has replaced the financial advice leader ...

Mercer wins ANZ Staff Super mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
... according to data from Rainmaker Information. The fund, which has 30,000 members will become one of Mercer's largest outsourcing clients in Australia. The deal will see ANZ migrate the administration of its staff superannuation scheme including the administration ...