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Choice awareness grows as willingness to move drops

Awareness of the impending introduction of choice of fund is building according to research conducted by AMP which found that 84 per cent of adult Australians are aware of the change, up 20 per cent in the past month alone. This awareness has climbed ...

…as Minchin denies union funds attack

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2005
Finance Minister Nick Minchin has denied the Government's new choice of superannuation laws were motivated by an attack on union dominated super funds. Workplaces which previously provided only one chosen super scheme for employees will have to open ...

Perennial scores another mandate win

The $US589 billion Northern Trust Global Investments (NTGI) fund has appointed Perennial Investment Partners to manage its Japanese equities mandate. NTGI is a global multi-asset class investment manager offering active, passive and enhanced products ...

Morningstar pessimistic about ING Property Securities Trust

Morningstar Research has downgraded its rating of ING's Wholesale Property Securities Trust from 'investment grade' to 'hold' amid the fund's poor performance, high fees, and changes to its investment team. The performance of the fund has been poor ...

Standard & Poor's rates CSAM and Vanguard offerings

Standard & Poor's has assigned an ASSIRT 'strong' fund rating on Vanguard's Australian shares high yield fund an ASSIRT 'competent' rating to Credit Suisse Asset Management's (CSAM's) global alternative strategies funds. In July last year Vanguard made ...

FPA concerned over misleading advertising about Choice

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has expressed its concerns that the current advertising campaigns regarding choice of fund are factually inaccurate and are creating a confusing climate for consumers in the lead up to the new regime. The FPA ...

ASIC rubs out financial planner for two years

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned David Rosewell from acting as a financial planner and dealers' representative for two years after finding him guilty of non compliance with financial services law and having reason ...

Super budget for funds management

The budget delivered for the superannuation and funds management industry last night, abolishing the superannuation surcharge and assigning $16 billion to its 'Future Fund' for unfunded public service superannuation liabilities. The government has allocated ...

ASFA foreshadows a super friendly budget

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has indicated the 2005 budget to be handed down on 10 May could contain several positive superannuation initiatives for consumers. The abolition of the superannuation surcharge is one of the ...

Government joins push for better super education

The Federal Government has released a booklet to help improve consumer understanding of superannuation in order to allow people to make more informed financial decisions regarding their retirement savings. The publication is called Super Choices has ...