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Northern Trust upgrades consultant service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
Northern Trust enhanced the reporting capabilities of its web portal service for asset consultants. The Passport's homepage has been designed to ensure all client information is at the fingertips of asset consultants. The interface is available at all ...

Four in five happy with their super: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2008
The global financial crisis prompted only 13 per cent of Australians to change the way they save for their retirement and a majority 80 per cent are happy with the performance of their super fund, a new industry survey shows. The findings were from ...

Australian Child Care revamps super

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... in the draw to win a relaxing retreat for you and a friend in tropical Bali," spruiked the fund. Finally the fund's automatic insurance cover has been increased from one unit death and total and permanent disability cover to two units of death and TPD ...

MLC upgrades its group insurance suite

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... the three-month waiting period and then receive double payments for the remaining three months for up to a six months. Automatic acceptance levels were increased and underwriting bands cut to reduce the amount of underwriting required. Members can receive ...

Aviva grants free child life insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
More than 58,000 existing Aviva customers are set to benefit from its decision to provide free automatic life insurance for children who experience a defined critical illness. The Child Income Benefit and Child Support Benefit are available under parents' ...

Gamers target lost super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
Chasing cats and avoiding wombats all in a bid to find lost superannuation is part of AUSfund's campaign to get more people to consider finding their lost retirement savings. The fund's online game involves participants taking on a role as a dog that ...

Moral hazard remains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
... state intervention to survive. The welfare state developed. Unemployment insurance, deposit insurance and other forms of automatic stabilizers were put in place. As a consequence, recessions became shorter and less severe. But because of this, the excesses ...

New turbo charged adviser account

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
... addition, the new account provides a consolidated reporting tool that saves advisers time. Advisers also gain access to automatic crediting of dividends via the E*TRADE platform and funds through ANZ channels. "Previously advisers using E*TRADE's services ...

NAB Group Super axes cash plus

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
NAB Group Super has morphed its cash plus option into a pure cash option - closing the strategy's previous exposure to fixed interest, Australian shares and property. The board Trustee's decision to change the corporate fund's cash plus option into ...

Coin extends MLC and Macq service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2008
... facilities to advisers following a tech upgrade with Coin. MLC platform users can now open accounts online, receive automatic updates of client portfolios and no longer need to manually download and import files. In addition, Coin users can refresh individual ...