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AusSuper's in-house plan to save $150m

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
... investment team, and I am very pleased to say it has gone to plan and been delivered on time and on budget." Delaney said the project would see a cost reduction of up to 15 basis points. "Fifteen basis points on a hundred billion dollar portfolio is ...

Super fund sells hospital to government

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... Super has sold its stake in Mildura Base Hospital (MBH) to the Victorian Government after 13 years of investment in the project. Since 2000, MDH has been under a public private partnership (PPP) arrangement, comprising the Victorian Government, MTAA ...

Global firm mulls Aussie advice market

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2013
... have one adviser working for us because this is still part of a start-up within Willis and if we demonstrate that the project is successful, we will expand our adviser force," Rowell said. He said that the initiative has raised interest among the employees ...

Scaled advice to shape industry future

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
The Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms will bring an increase of demand for scaled advice over the long term and the cost of advice will go down, Rice Warner research commissioned by Industry Super Network (ISN) found. The report based on modelling ...

AMP issues profit warning on insurance claims

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2013
Wealth manager and insurer AMP has warned that its half-year profit is likely to come in below expectations. In a press release the financial services company said profit would likely come in between $415 million and $435 million, or roughly 13% lower ...

AFA moves into broadcast to promote advice vision

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
... producing a program to tell "real stories about real advice that entertain and educate at the same time." Fox said that the project is still at an early stage, but he hinted that "it will have to be broadcasted" and that the main challenge will be to ...

Retirement platforms to become the new battleground

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
Retirement is set to become the biggest segment of the platform market, according to Rainmaker's latest set of superannuation funds under management (FUM) projections for 2012 to 2033. The personal platform market is currently the major battleground ...

$10bn CEFC fund gets govt mandate

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
... to many project proponents about many investment ready opportunities, as well as quite a number in early stages of the project development cycle." A CEFC spokesperson told Financial Standard that the government's investment mandate was a key foundation ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013
... have had to raise capital if the Browse project went ahead in its current form, so the fact that it was reconsidering the project was seen as positive for the moment. Global miner BHP Billiton was 12 cents lower at $33.28, and Rio Tinto dumped 80 cents ...

Government announces key super reforms

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
Australians with superannuation balances over $2 million dollars face losing key tax concessions, Treasurer Wayne Swan and Financial Services and Superannuation Minister Bill Shorten announced this morning. Starting July 1, 2014, all new earnings on ...