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More room to slash super fees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
... review on the efficiency and governance of the country's superannuation system. Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that this is the first ever research on super fund fees globally. A similar research covering both super ...

Packer cuts Challenger ties

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
... substantial shareholder Consolidated Press Holdings," noted an ASX statement by Challenger last Friday. According to an article in the Australian Financial Review, the deal signals the end of an 11 year relationship between Challenger and the Packer ...

UCSuper appoints IUS as insurer

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... trustee has decided that the SCI premiums will be calculated on age-based premium. Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly referred to IUS as Insurance Underwriting Services. UCSuper's new insurer is International Underwriting Serv ...

Beware the tiny URL

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
Online criminals are leaving no virtual stones unturned - targeting finance professionals who are Twitter-happy as their next victims. The popularity of Twitter has given rise to so-called tiny URL links, often used in Tweets to refer to articles or ...

Meredith Whitney

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... GS releases its earnings report. To be sure, Graham Bowley and Jenny Anderson of the New York Times published a similar article the day before, similarly lauding Goldman...but in the end, their story was hedged with a caveat, "For all its success, Goldman ...

When ASIC knocks, answer immediately

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2009
... said that two "financial planners" who recently received notices from ASIC, as was highlighted in a Sydney Morning Herald article yesterday, were not members of the FPA. Sanders believed them to be accountants who run accounting businesses.

Plum wins mandates

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
Plum Financial Services has won mandates to administer the super arrangements of the Victorian Organisation Royal Automobile Club of Victoria and Merck Sharp & Dohme (Australia). The deals will see Plum administer services to the two funds which have ...

Aviva Aus sale poses revenue risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
... Australia is being sold off," he said. Craig Bingham, Aviva Investors' chief executive, Asia-Pacific, was contacted for this article but couldn't be reached by press deadline.

Super is a good idea but needs fixing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
... concessions as its primary incentive tool has resulted in these incentives being untargeted. Disney said in an opinion article published in Fairfax newspapers this week, that the current series of government reviews provide an opportunity for super to ...

CORRECTION: Aberdeen takes on 30 Credit Suisse staff

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2009
... also joined Aberdeen's client services, marketing, compliance and operations teams. Erratum: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated Aberdeen axed around 50 Credit Suisse staff. Credit Suisse clarified that the remaining staff remains the ...