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Statewide launches target return investment option

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2007
... super fund Statewide has stepped up its move into long-term strategic investments by launching a target return investment choice. The Statewide Target Return Option invests entirely in infrastructure, property, private equity, forestry and collateralised ...

HESTA gives members free super advice

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2007
... Superannuation Service Advisers (SSA). HESTA members can arrange to meet an SSA in their workplace for personal advice on investment choice, voluntary and additional super contributions, insurance, account consolidation and other super issues. Members ...

Aviva upgrades investments and direct share access

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2006
Aviva has added 25 new investment choices to its Personal Retirement Plan and the Personal Investment Plan investment menus while the Personal Retirement Plan has also increased the range of ASX listed shares available. Stuart Fechner, Aviva research ...

Optimum gets a pre-Christmas product upgrade

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2006
Asteron has announced a range of improvements to its Optimum corporate and personal super platforms, ranging from new investment choices, family-linked accounts and improved insurance cover. Jane Power, Asteron's head of product and marketing, said ...

JUST Super and Print Super to merge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2006
JUST Super and Print Super have announced an in principle decision to merge, forming a combined fund holding 110,000 members and controlling $2.1 billion in assets. Chairman of Print Super, Gordon Cooke, said, "The two funds believe that combining our ...

Member investment arbitraging hits GESB: reports

ALEX DUNNIN, MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2006
Poor fund design will cost superannuation funds millions of dollars unless they start to upgrade their outdated or inadequate investment reporting systems. The latest fund to be impacted is the $6.3 billion GESB public sector super fund in WA, according ...

Smart 401(k) plan design boosts their take-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2006
Research from the US-based Investment Company Institute (ICI) reveals smart 401(k)s plan design is a big factor in their take up. "Research generally indicates that offering employer matching contributions or a loan provision increases participation. ...

Absolute returns not high risk

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
Super funds increasing their allocations to hedge funds and absolute strategies are not increasing their risk weightings because such strategies are really aimed at adding greater diversification. Scott MacDonald, managing director of VanMac Global ...

Noonan replaces Wason on CBUS board

... however has not distracted the AAA rated $9.2 billion super fund. According to SelectingSuper, CBUS' default investment choice was rated among the top 20 over three and five years in the period to end August. The 'growth option' was top quartile over ...

Sen Chapman explains Parliamentary Inquiry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2006
... "Some people making submissions to the Inquiry believe APRA's interpretation of the SIS Act can undermine member investment choice [MIC] to the point where they encourage fund trustees to ignore financial planning advice given to members," said Senator ...