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Mercer and Bravura combine for super admin

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... modern and global, commercial-off-the-shelf platform." Sonata is an integrated platform that supports superannuation, pensions, KiwiSaver, life insurance, trust and wrap products, and includes web services and workflow capability.

Former Mercer partner joins Cooper Investors

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... funds - the Global Equities Fund in 2004 and the Asian Tiger Fund in 2007. "Most recently, in March 2014, we launched the Pensions Fund; a conservative equities fund designed to form part of an overall portfolio for investors who are in the pensions ...

Link Group moves up in Melbourne

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... staff from various business units including Link Market Services, AAS, Superpartners, Empirics and Syncsoft. Link Group pensions and superannuation division administers more than 70 funds, managing on their behalf more than 10 million member accounts ...

CFS reveals retirement income strategy

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... together," she explained during a media briefing. Rubinzstein revealed that CFS, Australia's largest provider of account based pensions, was considering recently whether to issue variable annuities: "We did a lot of modelling on variable annuities because ...

Retirement income sector keeps pace with population changes

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... report indicates that the largest part of retirement income FUM will be held in SMSFs (48%), followed by retail allocated pensions (38%), industry funds (12%) and annuities (2%). Investment Trends' December 2014 Retirement Planner Report shows that advisers ...

UK pension changes to benefit Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... allowance (LTA) cut announced in this year's United Kingdom 2015 Budget could result in more British retirees moving their pensions out of the UK. The Budget contemplates that the amount individuals can save tax-free into pensions will be A£1m, down ...

Australian Unity fund added to Emerald Wrap

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... Social and Governance (ESG) issues." "The fund will be available on all of Emerald Wrap's investment services including pensions and super funds offerings," he added. "The feedback we are getting from advisers is that more of their clients want an ethical ...

Demography must drive reform

ANDREW BRAGG, FSC DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND GLOBAL MARKETS  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... on population, participation and productivity may be difficult to sell. Looking at similar demography, in 2006, the UK Pensions Commission offered four options to: save more work longer pay higher taxes and, be poorer. Saving more is an option which ...

Zenith rates Mercer LifetimePlus

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... towards super funds looking to provide longevity solutions to members, and is accessible to members with account-based pensions. It is based on a global fixed income portfolio derived from Mercer-selected fixed income managers and Australian deposits ...

AMP Capital joins retirement education portal

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015
... general manager - investment consulting Lukasz de Pourbaix believes that demographic changes will make funding of retiree pensions one of the greatest challenges facing the financial sector in the coming decades. "An increasing number of retirement products ...