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AIA partners with AGI

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2012
AIA Australia has partnered with Australian Group Insurance to offer self managed super funds online access to insurance at wholesale rates. The SMSF Master Insurance Plan represents AIA Australia's first targeted offering to the SMSF sector, which ...

Super contributions break through $1 trillion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2012
In the past 13 years, $1 trillion has been contributed into superannuation funds while the proportion of benefits paid as lump sums has plummeted. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has just released its Annual Superannuation Bulletin for ...

OneVue adds retail super to platform

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
... coming out of the Future of Financial Advice reforms and the subsequent need for more client options led to the OneVue retail super offering in an effort to assist dealer groups that use or private label the UMA. "Our new retail superannuation product ...

MySuper Mythconceptions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
MySuper continues to generate hysteria among some superannuation industry commentators and it's time to remind ourselves what it is and, more importantly, what it is not. MySuper is the government's response within its StrongerSuper reform package to ...

Illiquid assets boost returns: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
... the higher relative risk-adjusted returns for not-for-profit funds, undermining criticisms from some sectors of the retail super fund community that super funds and MySuper funds in particular should not invest into illiquid assets. These different approaches ...

MLC/NAB earnings down but advisers up

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011
MLC and NAB Wealth cash earnings declined 12.5% to $533 million for the September 30 full year although it reported strong investment in adviser numbers, up from 1,555 to 1,864. The total funds under management for MLC and NAB Wealth is sitting at $112.7 ...

AustralianSuper uses scale to negotiate deals with NAB, ME Bank

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011
... offer sustainably competitive rates, rather than just short-term, introductory specials. "Unlike other platforms or retail super funds we are not tied to a product provider, so we can focus on achieving the best possible, sustainable deal for AustralianSuper ...

BT, MLC rocket up the super charts

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
BT and MLC have shot up in the performance satisfaction retail standings thanks to huge lifts in the proportion of their satisfied customers, according to Roy Morgan's latest Superannuation Satisfaction Report. The report is based on interviews with ...

OneVue to expand its UMA platform distribution

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2011
... funds, separately managed accounts, listed securities and cash all on the one platform." OneVue will soon launch its retail super and insurance offering through the UMA.

Super funds see hybrid opportunity

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2011
... guaranteed solutions with flexibility over savings. Currently there are a few hybrid products available in Australia from retail super funds which Hildyard said shows there is a wide opportunity for institutional funds to offer a competitively priced ...