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Link grows empire with Syncsoft swallow-up

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2013
... analytics (via Empirics), financial advice (via Money Solutions), an integrated clearing house, and a Direct Investment Option which allows funds to offer members direct investment options such as the ASX300, ETFs or Term Deposits. It also last week ...

Club Plus climbs aboard DI bandwagon

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
Industry fund Club Plus Super is the latest superannuation fund to launch a direct investment option, which may stave off the flow of members with high account balances setting up self-managed super funds (SMSFs). The new Direct Investment Option will ...

Direct investment option key to retain fund members

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2013
Offering a direct investment option (DIO) within a superannuation fund could be the key to retaining members and discouraging them from moving to self-managed super funds (SMSF). A CoreData Member Retention report found that a DIO within the super fund ...

CareSuper releases direct investment option

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
CareSuper has issued a direct investment option within the fund as a response to the member's demand for more control over their investments. CareSuper's Direct Investment Option will allow members to invest across ASX300 companies and is seen as an ...

All APRA funds to offer SMSF-style choice

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013
All Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) regulated superannuation funds will offer direct investment options for members within five years, according to former Minister for Superannuation Nick Sherry. The retired politician anticipated ...

UBS and ME Bank launch high interest cash account

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
... funds. AustralianSuper is the first superannuation fund to offer the cash account as part of its Member Direct investment option at a 3.4% interest rate. Industry superannuation funds Telstra and Hostplus will also join the UBS platform, Ian Dunbar told ...

Funds unlikely to follow HOSTPLUS to PST

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... across all members. It is not suggested that HOSTPLUS has increased members' fees. "We already have a direct investment option that we think can almost replace a self managed super fund," Lander told Financial Standard. While acknowledging it was obviously ...

Direct investors prefer scaled advice

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
Almost 60% of direct investors are interested in scaled advice, with the majority of those preferring to receive that advice from a financial adviser rather than their super fund. These were among the findings of CoreData survey results released today ...

Demand for term deposits on the rise

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... AustralianSuper announced in October last year they would be offering term deposits to members through its Member Direct Investment option on the back of interest in term deposits within super. NAB and ME Bank were selected as AustralianSuper's providers ...

AustralianSuper uses scale to negotiate deals with NAB, ME Bank

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011
... AustralianSuper has announced that it will offer its members access to term deposits through its Member Direct investment option, due to be launched later this year. According to Ian Silk, Chief Executive, AustralianSuper, term deposits outside of super ...