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Super segmentation comes of age

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
Age is nothing but a number, even in super, with one researcher ambitiously setting up a new template to segment fund members beyond the usual Gen X, Gen Y and Baby Boomer divide. The 2010 Ultimate Superannuation Marketing Metrics study, conducted by ...

NZ Super to look for green mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
Australian fund managers looking for mandates from the $16.4 billion NZ Super Fund may soon have to display how they input environmental, social and governance factors in their strategies as the fund pushes ESG considerations higher on its priority ...

NAB exits AXA AP bidding war

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
National Australia Bank has dropped its bid to buy AXA Asia Pacific, paving the way for other parties to acquire AXA AP's Australian and New Zealand assets. According to an Australian Securities Exchange statement released late yesterday, NAB terminated ...

Unions threaten strikes with BBC pension reforms looming

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010

Fortune cookie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
Move on people, there wasn't a lot of shaking that went on in Wall Street last night. The US equity market closed almost as flat as pancake after the US Commerce Department released the latest update on retail sales that - once again - could be interpreted ...

More governance needed on remuneration

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
Super funds can do more to exert their influence on remuneration policies after new research suggests CEO pay packages barely changed despite the GFC. The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) in its CEO Pay in the Top 100 Companies ...

ACCC opposes NAB/AXA merger

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
The competition regulator has again opposed National Australia Bank's proposal to buy AXA Asia Pacific after reviewing the bank's revised bid, raising the chances of AXA AP's other suitor, AMP. Peter Kell, deputy chairman of the ACCC, said the proposed ...

Instreet closes Reliance strategies

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
Instreet has closed two if its Reliance funds following slow inflows from advisers and investors. George Lucas, managing director at Instreet, said the Instreet Reliance Commodities Fund was wound up at the end of March. Meanwhile, the Instreet Reliance ...

Titanium challenges rating

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
Camden-based fund manager Titanium Asset Management said S&P fund services' research on one of the group's funds contain "major inaccuracies", and has requested S&P to withdraw its 'sell' rating on it. S&P Fund services assigned a "sell" rating on the ...

Let the lobbying begin

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
The Independents holding the balance of power in Federal Parliament could be subjected to three years of intense lobbying as the financial services industry comes to grips with a minority government. Industry bodies remain united in their desire to ...