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Super fund tech still lags: KPMG

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
... satisfy," said Feyzeny. Participants will also need to improve their offerings of calculators and functionality relating to pensions. The most advanced internet offerings were by The Plum Superannuation Fund and Mercer Super Trust, in the for-profit ...

Retirees want funds that last a lifetime

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
... crisis wiped out as much as 27 per cent of the value of super funds - the second worst investment performance for private pensions out of 30 OECD countries, he said. "This illustrates there is a gap in the market for other investment vehicles to help ...

Funds resist SG "me too" pension scheme

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2009
... Anonymous comments from participants include "the 2012 Personal Accounts scheme will be as much of a failure as Stakeholder Pensions" and that the scheme won't be the panacea for boosting pensions for low to middle-income earners simply because those ...

The market's next 800-pound gorilla

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... reduces the budget flexibility for the government. If I can speak bluntly, 95 per cent of your budget is locked in, in pensions, aged pensions, single parent pensions, unemployment benefits, defence spending, Medicare, the PBS - all those things which ...

US fundie expands into Japanese pensions

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
US-based INTECH Investment Management LLC has been appointed by Nikko Asset Management as a sub-adviser to provide a customised international equities strategy to Japanese pension funds. INTECH will provide the firm's Kokusai Strategy which uses the ...

WYPF tenders for custodian

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... domestic banking service, including cash and investment accounts, receipt of payments, fund transfers and payment of pensions through electronic means and cheques. The fund will also require an international banking facility, chiefly to handle overseas ...

UK pensions demand more face time with fundies

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
A survey of UK workplace pension funds representing $400 billion in assets found pension funds are putting more fund managers on a "regular performance review". The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF), which 1,200 pension funds and $1.6 trillion ...

The quest for independent advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... some experts, the reforms would be long overdue as they come on the back of prior scandals: the massive misselling of pensions and investments in the 80s and 90s. In contrast, the local financial planning industry is years ahead, having followed a stricter ...

OECD vindicates govt super reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... OECD average. The OECD welcomes the government's increase in the age pension to address this problem," noted the OECD Pensions at a Glance 2009 report. While the report highlighted how Australia's market based superannuation system has been hit harder ...

Northern Trust targets EMEA pensions

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
... Solutions Practice is in response to client demand and brings together Northern Trust's multi layered investment and pensions experience under one roof," said Teresa Parker, head of corporate and institutional business in the region. "Northern Trust ...