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Niche mergers have their benefits

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
... survey by NGS Super found member satisfaction with the fund was at 84%, following recent mergers with Cuesuper (for credit union employees) in 2011 and UCSuper (for Uniting Church employees) in 2012. "I often hear trustees and executives in the superannuation ...

Plans to close large UK defined benefit angers members

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... us, we are now proposing that the scheme be closed pending a further 60 days of consultation." Unite, Britain's biggest union and the representative for Axa staff, is yet to rule out industrial action and said it had put forward a range of alternatives ...

Image of financial advisers still low

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
Financial planners are respected by almost twice as many people as union leaders, but they lag nurses, doctors, pharmacists and school teachers by more than three to one. Roy Morgan has just released its latest consumer survey rating the annual image ...

May's not far away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013
... Ebay, IBM, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley. No one wants to hear about the profit/revenue beats of Verizon, PepsiCo, Union Pacific, Peabody Corp or American Express. No one cared that Bloomberg's running earnings compilation showed that, "Of the 82 ...

NGS Super adds three new directors

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013
... Wilkinson, who joins as a member representative director, is both a teacher and president of the NSW ACT Independent Education Union. "Garry, Geoff and Christine will bring a fresh perspective and valuable insights to their roles, and ensure that NGS ...

So stupid it could actually make money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
... cough up a,-3 billion to aid Cyprus. According to Bloomberg, deputy parliamentary leader of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party, Michael Fuchs, asked in an interview with BBC Radio 4, "Why should Germans bail out these people and they are not willing ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
... market has fallen by almost 1.5 per cent due to concerns about a bailout of Cyprus and falls on Wall Street. A European Union bailout of Cyprus had scared investors and led to a negative opening on the Australian market, IG Markets strategist Evan Lucas ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013
... A decline of US jobless claims for a third straight week also boosted sentiment. But eyes remained on a two-day European Union summit under way in Brussels that is set to discuss a potential bailout for Cyprus. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top ...

APRA approves LUCRF MySuper

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... welcomed the early approval and credited the team that managed the application process. LUCRF, which stands for the Labour Union Co-operative Retirement Fund, was founded in 1978. It has now grown to have more than 184,000 members national with over ...

Latin American pension funds eye PE

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... active investors in the coming years, investment research house Preqin said. Regulations like the Solvency II in the European Union and the Volker Rule in the United States look likely to limit the future private equity investments of some North American ...