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Apostle adds Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn to suite

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2009
Apostle Asset Management has added US-based Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn, a global core investment manager with a value bias, to its stable for local institutional clients. The New York-based relative value manager was founded in 1973 and manages more than ...

Powerwrap goes live

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2009
... add SMA functionality to its repertoire in the next quarter. The Powerwrap Investment Account - a managed investment scheme (MIS) operating on Praemium's proprietary portfolio administration platform, V-Wrap - provides custodial holdings for managed ...

Faster contributions processing at SuperChoice

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
QSuper, ING and AMP are among some of the large super funds now using SuperChoice's latest straight through contribution processing technology, Super Data Exchange. Superannuation exchange provider SuperChoice has launched Super Data Exchange - a service ...

Make advice tax deductible: IFSA

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) is calling on the government to legislate for all financial advice to be tax deductible. John Brogden, chief executive at IFSA, said raising regulatory standards would more than likely increase ...

Day of silence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
Big yawn! That's what Wall Street and European markets did overnight. Flat, flat, flat. Perhaps they took a one-day of silence to show respect for US Senator Edward Kennedy. Senator Ted passed away yesterday, aged 77. Or maybe they're just taking a ...

RSL calls for super revamp

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2009
The Returned Services League (RSL) is calling for the government to address how it calculates military pensions after an alternative pension index rose by almost double the consumer price index in the first half of this year. Bill Crews, national president ...

ASIC slaps six year ban for MIS fraud

ASIC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
Mum-and-dad investors in South Australia have been caught out in a $15.2 million fraud carried out by yet another finance company operating without a financial services licence. ASIC has banned Jonathan Peter West, of Athelstone, South Australia from ...

SMSFs miss Asian equities boom

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
Australia's $326 billion self-managed super funds may be the fastest growing super fund sector to date, but research shows they are missing out on the Asian equities boom with their negligible exposure to international equities. Ralf Zurbrugg, a professor ...

APRA launches data revolution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2009
APRA has released its fund level returns data and in the process launched a revolution in the extent of data now available for researchers investigating superannuation. Data now available includes, for each fund, details of what they provide to the ...

Active members can cause asset allocation headache

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
Financial literacy and a push for more Australians to be engaged with superannuation will have a profound effect on super fund asset allocations, said one industry body. Speaking at an Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) event, David ...