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IFM's FUM surges by 34% on global support

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
Global investment manager IFM has seen a 34% growth in funds under management, form $34 billion to $46 billion, which is more than double the asset growth of the overall Australian superannuation market. The fund manager reported a growth in offshore ...

Super funds unready for trans-Tasman transfer rules

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... trans-Tasman portability arrangements which came into effect on 1 July, New Zealand immigrants can consolidate their Australian super in a KiwiSaver account. Under the provisions, once the superannuant has shown that they have moved permanently to New ...

Super board quality compromised over pay rates

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
The level of superannuation fund board members salaries is reducing effectiveness according to law firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth chief executive John Denton. Speaking as part of a panel at The Economist Bellwether 2013 Australian Forum in Sydney this ...

Parametric appoints new Australian CEO

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
Global investment manager Parametric has appointed Chris Briant as chief executive officer for its Australian business, following the departure of managing director Scott Lawrence. The Eaton Vance subsidiary, best known in Australia as a proponent of ...

Opposition challenges Labor to review Trio fraud

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
Shadow Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Mathias Cormann has called on new Treasurer Chris Bowen to review the Gillard government's response to the Trio Capital scandal. Described as the "largest superannuation fraud in Australian history" ...

WA Local Super gets MySuper licence

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
WA Local Super has become the first Western Australia-based super fund to be awarded its MySuper licence. The industry fund, which originally catered to local government employees but is now open to the general public, has funds under management of ...

Super charter should be enshrined in legislation: AIST

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) has said that the government's proposed Charter of Superannuation Adequacy and Sustainability should be enshrined in legislation. In a submission to the discussion paper, the AIST also said ...

Next government to reconsider super taxes: Grattan Inst

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
Bringing the commonwealth budget into structural surplus will require the next government to be very different to the Rudd-Gillard and Howard governments, and this will inevitably force a review of superannuation taxes, argued the Grattan Institute ...

Shorten slams opposition's 'freeze-frame' super plans

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
Financial Services and Superannuation Minister Bill Shorten has used the passing of the Tax and Superannuation Laws Amendment (2013 Measures No 1) Bill 2013 into the House of Representatives to slam the Opposition's plans to delay an increase in compulsory ...

Peak6 $1bn capital raise boosted by Aussie instos

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
... launches. "We could reach our target of $2 billion by the end of the year," he told Financial Standard. "A big Australian super fund came to see us in Chicago recently and we have a major consultant and another super fund coming next week." Scoby has ...