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Australia leads charge on super assets growth

... are solid, with institutional superannuation assets totalling US$16.4 trillion, Watson Wyatt noted concerns over defined benefit funds with liabilities "stubbornly high" and most balance sheets having a high equity content of 58 per cent of total assets. ...

Super choice information overload

... according to Herron, is possible if their parent companies, like Nestle, insisted on continuing to offer an open defined benefit fund for its members. "When your parent company says, 'you will exist', you just do what needs to be done to continue." Healy ...

Another international DB fund bites the dust

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2006
The National Australia Bank's UK operations have become the latest company to dump their final salary-based defined benefit pension plan in an attempt to control the ballooning costs of such schemes, according to UK reports. Among the major changes ...

Apples are not apples with new accounting standards

... not because of any fundamental changes to the business. Companies that will be impacted more are those that have defined benefit superannuation funds, significant employee share or option schemes and those that use derivatives heavily. And while the ...

US defined benefit scheme shake-out continues

... move to avoid the pension-related miseries of General Motors, US computer giant IBM announced it will close its defined benefit retirement scheme to new employees in favour of a 401(k) system. IBM is the latest of a raft of multinational companies that ...

Super splitting to go ahead in new year

... provision will however be voluntary for superannuation funds, while it applies only to accumulation interests and not defined benefit interests. O'Shaunnessy said the industry is well prepared for the implications of the bill, which was first introduced ...

Vision return to Russell

... provider of actuarial benefits consulting advice to Australia's largest corporate, industry and public sector defined benefit superannuation funds. We are proud of this tradition and intend to expand our practice going forward."

Vision and CARE merger 'talks' to tackle fund differences

... water services and the like - that's the employer base. Because of its past orientation, there is a substantial defined benefit arrangement, which has been preserved for members. There's no such configuration for care." A merger between the two funds ...

ESSS call off industrial action and work bans

Emergency workers and the Victorian Finance Minister, John Lenders, have come to an "interim settlement" over a fund merger dispute that erupted last month. Emergency workers and members of the The Emergency Services Superannuation Scheme (ESSS) have ...

MLC brings in NT Government funds worth $500 million

... Board to add value to fund members over the coming years." MLC's second appointment comes from LAMS, which is a defined benefit superannuation scheme for NT parliamentarians, with $46 million in assets who offer pensions for members who are no longer ...