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Equip/Vision launch new brand

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2011
The $10 billion merged entity of Equipsuper and Vision Super, to launch in June next year, will retain the Vision brand it was announced today. Unanimously supported by the combined board of both merging funds, the 'Vision' brand will represent the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2011
Australian shares gained more than 1.5 per cent, snapping six days of losses, with investor sentiment boosted by a stronger than expected start to the Christmas retail period in the United States. The gains came after the market hit a seven-week low ...

HOSTPLUS, CareSuper take top gongs at AIST awards

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2011
Cooking competitions and Olympians were the winning formulas for HOSTPLUS and CareSuper with the two super funds winning the top awards at the annual AIST 2011 Awards for Excellence. The awards, attended by around 200 industry members, recognised diversity ...

Actuarial certificate delivery speeds up

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2011
Supercorp's self managed superannuation fund software superMate has teamed up with Bendzulla Actuarial to significantly speed up the delivery of actuarial certificates online. The new streamlined process for ordering certificates, which relate to exempt ...

MTAA Super names new chief and board

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2011
MTAA Super has made a number of new executive and senior board appointments. Leeane Turner, deputy chief at MTAA for four years, has been named the fund's new chief executive officer, after previously heading up AvSuper. Vicki Allen and Susanne Dahn ...

ACCC gives CBA Count acquisition the go-ahead

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
Shareholders at Count Financial Limited will meet in Sydney next week to discuss the schemes of arrangement required for Commonwealth Bank's takeover of the firm. This follows yesterday's decision from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ...

Europe push-US pull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
Obama in Australia may be providing us, Australians, a bit of a sideshow but for global financial markets, the game hasn't changed. It continues to be one that could be characterised as Europe pushed-US pulled. Europe pushed. Fears of a debt contagion ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
Australian shares were marginally higher at noon as a positive lead from the US was counterbalanced by continued worries about Europe's debt problems. At noon, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 5.1 points, or 0.12 per cent, at 4,290.7 points, while ...

Independent directors not the silver bullet answer, super fund chairs

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011
Four senior fund chairs were quizzed on various aspects of fund governance during this week's ASFA conference, which included the independence of directors and whether a time limit should be placed on a board member's tenure. Neil Cochrane, chair of ...

Shorten rallies the troop to vote in favour of SG hike

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011
Financial services minister Bill Shorten has praised all sectors of the superannuation industry for their willingness to "negotiate and compromise" on reform, despite their traditional differences. In an impassioned speech to ASFA delegates, the assistant ...