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Rainmaker Marketing Excellence Awards 2009

... Enhancement DM - CommInsure Flamingo Campaign - ING Australia Account Consolidation Campaign - Mercer Wealth Solutions Aon Master Trust "Do you have buried treasure in your place" - Aon Consulting Aviva HUGE Term Deposit - Aviva Australia Best Direct ...

APRA to monitor investment options

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
APRA is continuing plans to ramp up its data collections, in particular to collect performance data on individual investment options. To refine its approaches the regulator has issued another discussion paper on how it should be done, how it should ...

Aon welcomes insurance transfers

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
The $1.6 billion Aon Master Trust is ramping up its insurance initiatives when it recently offered its existing members insurance transfers with no health evidence required. Aon announced it is offering its existing members the chance to transfer their ...

Budget deficit squeezes pension promises

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
The looming federal budget deficit tipped to exceed $50 billion accompanied by a blow-out in the government's borrowing requirement is threatening the Prime Minister's promise to boost age pensions in next month's budget. Following last year's budget ...

Platforms should merge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
Master trusts and wraps should be consolidated into a single government run platform to drive greater efficiencies and lowers costs. Wade Tubman, a director, and Annie Liao, a senior manager in the actuarial practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, told ...

SuperChoice buys SuperConnect

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
SuperChoice has acquired SuperConnect, a niche developer of superannuation e-commerce and clearinghouse services. SuperConnect provides software to source superannuation contributions from employers' payroll systems and electronically remits these contributions ...

Top and bottom super performance differ by 36pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
The global financial crisis has widened the performance gap between the best and worst performing default workplace super funds to 36 per cent, treble their historic difference, according to SelectingSuper data. The latest SelectingSuper super fund ...

Master trusts and industry funds drive risk growth

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
Employer master trusts and industry funds will provide more risk insurance over the next 15 years, according to Rice Warner Actuaries research. The actuary's research found life risk insurance sold within employer master trusts is expected to grow at ...

Corporate super adjusts to crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
Corporate master trusts are going back to the negotiating table to cater for clients that have suffered large-scale redundancies due to the market downturn. Greg Healy, AMP's director of corporate superannuation, said that there have been cases where ...

Rainmaker coverage tops 25,000 options

... director of research, said the CompareOnline service now spans 535 super and retirement funds, including nearly 300 master trust and more than 150 industry fund products and divisions. "Following on from significant legislative changes being introduced ...