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UniSuper extends Bravura mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
Tech firm Bravura Solutions has extended its existing contract with UniSuper to licence Bravura's ePASS solution to employers. UniSuper is the industry super fund for Australia's higher education and research sector. The deal will see Bravura deploy ...

Equipsuper appoints two trustee directors

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
Equipsuper has appointed two trustee directors following an employer director election. Andrew Pickering, executive director at Infrastructure Capital Group and Greg Hade, executive general manager, finance and business services at Loy Yang Power Management ...

Mining royalties should go into SWF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
With the uproar surrounding the government's proposed 'mining super profits' tax, a less controversial solution may be putting mining royalties directly into an Australian sovereign wealth fund. Speaking on the ABC TV discussion program Q&A this week ...

AXA pushes for fee-for-service July deadline

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
AXA is working with its financial planners to ensure they are compliant with its fee-for-service structure by July this year. Simon Wallace, general manager of advice and licensing at AXA, said the firm had been working with its financial planners for ...

APRA contacts funds on rollover fraud

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
Super funds are being told to double check rollover applications after the tax office contacted the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) about a number of phoney rollover requests. In a letter sent to APRA regulated super funds, the prudential ...

Gunns freezes MIS offerings

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
Gunns Limited, which owns the Responsible Entity of several Great Southern schemes, flagged it will not be making any MIS offers this financial year. Gunns Limited owns Gunns Plantations - the responsible entity for the 1998 - 2006 Great Southern pulpwood ...

Savings boost for GenX and GenY

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
The government's proposed reforms to compulsory super give financial planners more reason to look after their next generation of clients. The recommended SG lift from 9 per cent to 12 per cent by 2019/20 will, unfortunately, mean little for those who ...

Simple tax is too taxing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
If I didn't know better, I would think that the Australian Treasury Secretary's name is Henry Review instead of Dr. Ken Henry. Look around you...pick up a paper...click on a mouse, and you're sure to find Dr. Ken Henry Tax Review splattered across the ...

Asteron leaves KiwiSaver market

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
Asteron is pulling out of the New Zealand KiwiSaver market. The firm is winding up its KiwiSaver Scheme at the end of May, which had more than 6,000 members with approximately $33 million in funds under management (FUM). The decision to withdraw from ...

CalPERS fights BoA directors election

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
One of the biggest pension funds in the US, CalPERS, has opposed the re-election of six Bank of America directors who failed to fully disclose the true financial condition of Merrill Lynch before the controversial merger in September 2008. CalPERS will ...