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ACSRF boosts insurance for members

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2010
The Australian Catholic Superannuation Retirement Fund joins the growing number of super funds providing more insurance at little or no extra cost after it increased its death and TPD insurance cover for members from 8 to 28 per cent starting next month. ...

Westpac upgrades online trading platform

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
From $600 worth of free brokerage to mobile trading, Westpac Securities has improved its online investing platform to give customers access to better investment and equity trading opportunities. Customers will be able to use a mobile trading platform ...

US pension funds boost mortgages

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
The $146 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund has pumped $564 million into Fannie Mae mortgages in New York to help stabilise mortgage lending in the state. According to a press statement by state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, the $564 million ...

Maritime looks beyond life risk

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
... on 1 March 2009 as a result of the merger between two maritime industry super funds, the Stevedoring Employees Retirement Fund (SERF) and the Seafarers Retirement Fund (SRF).

Savings boost for GenX and GenY

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
The government's proposed reforms to compulsory super give financial planners more reason to look after their next generation of clients. The recommended SG lift from 9 per cent to 12 per cent by 2019/20 will, unfortunately, mean little for those who ...

Bill backed for calling placement agents lobbyists

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
A US retirement assembly has backed a bill treating placement agents as "lobbyists", in a bid to help protect the integrity of the nation's two largest public pension funds. Assembly member Ed Hernandez, who helped author the bill, said the vote meant ...

ISN appoints deputy CEO

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2010
... Whiteley said McIvor brings experience and skills particularly from when she spent over a decade with Australian Retirement Fund (ARF) and then AustralianSuper. "During her time with ARF, Ms McIvor played a pivotal role in the merger with Superannuation ...

BT Super for Life hits the mark

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
BT Financial Group won 5,000 new BT Super for Life customers in just six weeks through Westpac-owned channels Bank SA and St.George Bank. Melanie Evans, head of superannuation at BT Financial Group, said the successful campaign are due to the bank's ...

ACSRF supports Catholic Schools Week

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
The Australian Catholic Superannuation & Retirement Fund is supporting Catholic Schools Week for the fourth year in a row to help improve financial literacy. The country's largest Catholic superannuation provider will partner with the dioceses within ...

Women make up 30 pc of trustees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
... majority of women trustees, and only four of these - AGEST, First State Super NSW, Southern State Super in SA and the Retirement Fund Board in Tasmania - could be classified as major funds, and these are all public sector funds, noted Rainmaker. Senator ...