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CARE joins Carbon Disclosure Project

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
CARE Super lobbies for better climate change policies after being the latest signatory to the Carbon Disclosure Project. Carbon Disclosure Project is a global not-for-profit group of 385 institutional investors that actively obtain information on company's ...

ADPIA lobbies against relic property laws

The peak body for direct property investors has called for each State Revenue Office in Australia to standardise stamp duty and get rid of archaic property trust regulations. Linden Toll, the president of the Australian Direct Property Investment Association ...

AXA to invest $30m in life insurance

AXA Australia plans to invest more than double each year into its life insurance business to move from its position as a sixth rank provider to one of the top three in the sector. In previous years, AXA invested around $3 million to $5 million each ...

Coin downsizes software for advisers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
Coin Software has developed Risk Lite, a condensed version of Coin Office that allows risk writers to manage all client data and recommend a product faster. Using Risk Lite the risk writer can identify each client's specific insurance requirements and ...

Property before super: IPSOS

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
Despite all the government and industry initiatives to encourage Australians to save money through their super, new research shows many name property as their preferred retirement savings plan. Speaking at a CMFS conference in Brisbane yesterday, research ...

Good billing helps SMSF admin

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2008
Outsourcing fund administration works if you have the right billing arrangement in place, said Andrew Bloore, chief executive of smartsuper, a self-managed super fund administrator. Speaking at the SPAA conference last week, Bloore said some accounting ...

SPAA backs specialist audit

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
The Self Managed Super Fund (SMSF) Professionals Association of Australia is turning its attention to auditing practices, and will call on new legislation to recognise auditors accredited to work on SMSFs as specialist SMSF auditors. "We're applying ...

Pinnacle appoints distrib exec

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
Pinnacle Investment Management has appointed Andrew Chambers to director of distribution and client relationships after the group's boutique businesses success in the market. Chambers previously worked at Legg Mason for seven years as vice president ...

CalPERS pumps cash into fund-of-funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
US pension giant California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has invested an extra $323.1 million last week for emerging managers. CalPERS has awarded $161.5 million each to emerging manager fund-of-funds manager Leading Edge Investment ...

Long life derails retirement

People are living longer but not saving up as much, and probably can't afford to save more anyway, according to a leading actuary. While many superannuation experts have talked about the risk of people running out of money before they run out of breath ...