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UniSuper nearly ready to award $25m insurance contract

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
Industry superannuation fund UniSuper is in the final stages of a tender process for its insurance arrangements, with announcement of the new insurer imminent. UniSuper chief executive Terry McCredden told Financial Standard that the review was triggered ...

Equipsuper focuses on 'member experience'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
Equipsuper has created a new role to manage the company's growing relationship with Mercer. Justin McMinn will fill the newly-created position, assuming the title 'member retention and experience manager'. EquipSuper outsources its member administration ...

Govt could handcuff SMSFs

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013
The government may have to force self-managed super fund (SMSF) members to undertake mandatory advice or outsource their investment strategy back to professionals to cover off a risk of it facing unexpected pension liabilities. That is the view expressed ...

No decision yet on QIC sale

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... Report said, "Whilst the [Queensland] government [will] retain responsibility for long-tail liabilities, it [should] outsource provision of transactional, registry and claim management services relating to its liabilities. "The government [should] divest ...

Superfund Wholesale's new tool cuts SMSF set-up to 20 mins

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
... recommend, establish and oversee the administration of a client's super fund portfolio in-house, eliminating the need to outsource services. SMSF iSystem uses cloud technology to take existing client information from IRESS' Xplan software and use that ...

ASIC accepts enforceable undertaking from City Index

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has accepted an enforceable undertaking from City Index Australia (CIA), which will appoint an independent expert to review the business and develop a plan to rectify the deficiencies. The ...

Perpetual completes wrap platform overhaul

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
Perpetual has announced today that the overhaul of its portfolio wrap platform is now complete with group executive Mark Smith saying he expects substantial adviser growth over the next decade. The announcement comes 18 months after the asset manager ...

Social media a counter-balance to info overload

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... elements can't be successfully outsourced. "All the truly important elements - like the strategic stuff - you can't outsource, if you want to get better at messaging clients and potential clients, then you need to get a better message," Gardner reminded ...

Another former asset consultant joins Cbus

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
Construction industry superannuation fund Cbus has hired a former asset consultant who had previously worked with the fund, in an expansion of its internal investment team. Cbus today said that Brett Chatfield would start from 4 February as an investment ...

Litigation risk to force advisers into multi-asset options: Russell

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
Scott Fletcher, director of client investment strategies at Russell, believes the threat of being liable for misdirected investment advice will see many planners, especially those specialising in life risk and other non-investment products, turn to ...