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CBA responds to mobile banking demand

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... platform with smartphones and tablets exceeding desktop logons. It's understood that over 1.56 million customers are now active mobile users. CommBank Kaching App has seen strong uptake with around 700,000 downloads and it has now processed more than ...

End voluntary contribution age limits: Suncorp

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... Summerhays. The super boss says that age barriers to contributions discriminate against older people who want to remain active in the workplace. In a recent Suncorp submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission on Grey Areas - Age Barriers to Work ...

New after-tax system for Qantas Super

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
... Parametric, which specialises in after-tax investing, benchmarking and reporting capabilities. Portfolio structure, including active/passive and asset class strategy decisions, can be altered when tax impacts are understood, said Scott Lawrence, managing ...

Lifecycle not the answer: Rice Warner

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
Two of retirement savings' biggest problems could be made worse by lifecycle Funds, which only help the poor returns caused by volatility, said Rice Warner Actuaries. Retirees dread a stock-market tumble, but most superannuation funds worry about this ...

Aging SMSF trustees revert to managed solutions

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
... investors the opportunity to choose between shares, term-deposits and ETFs. Brisbane's Frank Demartini, 76, has been an active and successful SMSF trustee for over 16 years and has established a comfortable nest egg for retirement. With his focus shifting ...

Super reforms should not kill off smaller funds: Quadrant

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
Super and financial advice reforms don't necessarily have to put small super funds under the pump, according to Quadrant Super CEO Wayne Davy. It is widely anticipated that reforms such as MySuper, and the downward pressure on fees that result, will ...

Planners ignore EMs when advising clients

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
... never mentioned emerging markets to their clients, said a Goldman Sachs Asset Management Survey. Of the more than 1000 "active" investors surveyed, 83% said that their financial planner had never mentioned investing in countries that the International ...

Certitude to access Threadneedle global income fund

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... assets in the already established offshore Threadneedle Global Equity Income fund. "Threadneedle is one of Europe's leading active fund managers and we are pleased that our partnership is going from strength to strength through the addition of the fund". ...

AIST CEO resigns for UN post

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... superannuation sector, said Cate Wood, AIST president. Under Reynolds' stewardship, AIST has grown into a well-resourced and active industry association that had a significant impact on superannuation policy, Wood said. AIST made more than 60 policy ...

Super fund awards natural resources mandate

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... resources, and long-term investors want to tap into these fundamentals with specialist managers, he said. Yesterday 90 West, an active natural resources manager, announced that one of Australia's leading super funds had awarded it an equities mandate ...