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Super scale requires immediate action

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2012
... stronger affinity with their members and produce good returns cost effective. "So the link between scale and success is not automatic but there can be diseconomies of scale in large funds, so the bigger they get the more services they offer and therefore ...

Good memories

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2012
... continued flow of better-than-expected and improving eco and survey stats out of America. We got more of 'em last night. Automatic Data Processing Inc. and Macroeconomic Advisers LLC reported that US private firms added 216,000 workers last month, up ...

Retirement not an automatic trigger for defensive strategies

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
... with members wanting stability as well as high-real returns with Towers Watson finding that retirement should not be an automatic trigger to adopt defensive strategies. With the Age Pension in place as a safety net for retirees, Towers Watson has recommended ...

Super accounts on path for consolidation: Shorten

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012
... have forgotten they have small amounts of money in super accounts from jobs they had years ago," said Brogden. "The automatic consolidation of inactive superannuation accounts will make the system more efficient and reduce overhead costs for superannuation ...

Move to horizontal integration for wraps

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
The days of the traditional approach to vertical integration by wraps may be numbered, according to online portfolio management provider Sharesight. A reasonable degree of vertical integration has been available for those buying a whole product package ...

Macquarie partners with Class Super for SMSF offering

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
... trustees will have more information available to them for investment decisions. Accountants will be able to use the automatic transfer of information feature for periodic and tax year-end reports to reduce the time accountants spend preparing SMSF audits ...

In superannuation, bigger can be better but not always

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
With Australia's biggest super fund, AustralianSuper, announcing yet another merger, this time with the public sector industry fund AGEST, the question is whether super funds are merging for the benefit of their members or to build financial empires. ...

Plan 5 and counting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2011
... structural budget deficits no larger than 0.5% of GDP, with this commitment written into national constitutions along with "automatic correction mechanisms". The timescale for compliance is not specified, but will be determined by the EC. A, Automatic ...

Actuarial certificate delivery speeds up

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2011
Supercorp's self managed superannuation fund software superMate has teamed up with Bendzulla Actuarial to significantly speed up the delivery of actuarial certificates online. The new streamlined process for ordering certificates, which relate to exempt ...

SG rise through House of Representatives

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... the lowest paid workers in Australia, particularly casual and part time workers many of whom are women, will get an automatic boost to their savings without needing to have a matching contribution." Reynolds said this addresses some of the current inequalities ...