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Remove insurance from super: Cassidy

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012
Tasplan chief Neil Cassidy says insurance should be removed from superannuation and a national scheme put in place instead. Cassidy expects a national scheme to offer more universal coverage with cost and efficiency benefits for both members and funds. ...

Too many managers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2012
... difficult to justify. "Some managers may choose to focus on retail rather than lower margin institutional business," said Neil Carter, IFM executive director of small caps. Himbury's comments coincide with an IFM review of their fee structure that also ...

CYRE Trilogy, APFG still fighting

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012
... an Australian Securities & Investments Commission order, said the directors of CYRE Trilogy. Bank of Queensland Chairman Neil Summersen is also chairman of the Australian Property Growth Fund (APFG). CYRE Trilogy made a play for the responsibly entity ...

BRICs plus four will drive world investment returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
Getting exposure to global growth economies through proxy companies listed on developed world exchanges is old world thinking that has run its course, according Goldman Sachs. These growth markets include the BRIC economies of Brazil, Russia, India ...

Media Super funds film

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
Media Super has announced the release of the latest film that has been jointly funded from a film finance facility that it participates in. "The film titled 'not suitable for children' is one of a series of local film & TV productions that Media Super ...

Older Australians delaying retirement

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
A report unveiled yesterday by financial services and superannuation minister, Bill Shorten, revealed that 50% of older Australian intend to delay retirement. The report, titled Financial Wellbeing: Concerns and choices amongst older Australians, also ...

CBA renames corporate super fund

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
... members in achieving their goals for a successful financial future," said Commonwealth Bank Group Super trustee board Chair, Neil Cochrane. Doug Carmichael, chief executive of Commonwealth Bank Group Super, said a key driver for the change was also about ...

PM rejects lifting retirement age to 70

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... threshold. "We are not revisiting those decisions," she said. But chief executive of the National Seniors lobby group, Mike O'Neil, was more forthcoming is his outright rejection of any proposal to lift the retirement age higher. He labelled the idea ...

CIO and COO award winners named

FINANCIAL STANDARD TEAM  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
It is usually the chief executive that gets the spotlight, but last night the country's top chief investment officer and chief operation officer for fiduciary funds got their time in the sun. Steve Merlicek, chief investment officer of IOOF, was honoured ...

Unstable markets demand more from COOs

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
During periods of market turbulence, funds intensify their focus on risk and efficiencies increasing the importance of the role of chief operating officer, according to La Trobe Financial. "There have already been a couple of behavioural cycles since ...