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Super set for best year since 2007

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
The recovery in super fund returns that continued apace in the year to May 2013 points to 2012/13 being the best returns year since 2007. The upbeat assessment is contained in the latest SelectingSuper Workplace rolling 12 month default option index ...

Super fund returns recovery rolls on

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
The recovery in super fund returns has continued apace in April 2013 as the SelectingSuper Workplace rolling 12 month default option index climbed again to 12.7%, its second highest level in three years. Explaining why rolling 12 month returns remain ...

UBS creates APAC real estate role

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
Former Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) managing director Trevor Cooke is set to join UBS Global Asset Management (UBS) in a newly created role. Cooke will officially join UBS on May 27, 2013 as head of global real estate for Asia Pacific. According ...

IFM raises airport holdings

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013
The Industry Funds Management (IFM) Australian Infrastructure Fund has acquired additional equity stakes in Airport Development Group (NT Airports) and the Australia Pacific Airport Corporation (APAC), the fund announced today. This move increases IFM's ...

Bravura and Rice Warner launch new super tool

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... superannuation fund's marketing plan following the introduction of scaled advice," said Roland Slee, Bravura's managing director, APAC. With this joint service, funds have the ability to generate statements of advice for transactions without the need ...

Business as usual at Mercer

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
In the wake of several high-profile redundancies across the global organisation, Mercer has said that it is business as usual for its Australian asset-consulting arm. It was revealed at the end of last year that Mercer was abandoning a three-year-old ...

UBS Global AM secures major FI mandates

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2012
UBS Global AM has successfully been awarded two significant fixed income mandates in Australia, collectively worth close to A$2.8 billion. A leading Swiss-based global multi-line insurance provider has formally appointed Global AM as a fixed income ...

Ugly jobs decline rattles financial services

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
Australia has experienced the world's largest drop off in financial service jobs with a 34% drop in the third quarter of 2012 compared to the same time last year, according to the quarterly Jobs Barometer from eFinancialCareers. While the decline is ...

BNY Mellon appoints head of intermediary distribution

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
Suri joins BNY Mellon from ING Investment Management where he held the role as a managing director and chief executive for its business in India. In his new role, he will assume responsibility for developing and managing the build out of the APAC intermediary ...

Reg compliance with archaic technology unlikely: Bravura

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012
The inflexibility of service providers' technology infrastructure will make the challenge of complying with new financial services regulations potentially 'insurmountable', a software administrator has warned. Bravura's APAC managing director Roland ...