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AGEST Super upgrades insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
AGEST Super has improved the fund's insurance arrangement to members. The latest AGEST Super member newsletter announced that cover levels have been improved for different age groups, members can now transfer existing cover into AGEST Super and members ...

SMSFs beware the taxman

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
An estimated 70,000 new SMSF trustees will be responsible for filing their first annual tax and compliance statements after June 30 this year, and based on past experience of the tax office, many fledgling trustees will fail to comply with superannuation ...

FTSE launches enviro tech indices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
FTSE Group has launched seven environmental technology indices. The indices provide exposure to the environmental technology firms that could play a major role as the world's economies shift to a low carbon economy. The indices include the FTSE Environmental ...

Super is a good idea but needs fixing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
Superannuation is a good idea but the design of the system to implement it is regressive and flawed, argues Julian Disney, social justice law professor and long time researcher and campaigner on equity issues. Disney said the difficulty is that while ...

Threat of Lehmannisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
Not as good as it got before. Wall Street ended last week's activity with a performance you wouldn't write home to your mother about. So did equity markets in Europe. But Asian markets were strong. Is decoupling back? Looking at last week's stock market ...

Tower wins Master Super contract

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
The $554 million Master Super has appointed Tower Australia as its new insurer starting 1 July. Following a recent review, Tower was appointed the new insurer due to an overall reduction in the cost of insurance for members, said the fund in a member ...

Global infra funds fall short

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
Only two in seven funds were awarded an A rating in the latest van Eyk global listed infrastructure report, at a time when the sector lost more than 30 per cent of its value. The UBS 50-50 Infrastructure Index lost 32 per cent over a year to April ...

Northern Trust targets EMEA pensions

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
Northern Trust is bringing together the firm's asset management and asset servicing divisions and launching the Retirement Solutions Practice to the European, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. The practice includes a dedicated team that will provide ...

Super breakthrough for SMAs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
It wasn't quite a Eureka moment but after two years in the making, Aviva has come up with a separately managed account (SMA) that promises to resolve a lot of the issues that planners often face when they want to use the product. Due for release after ...

Club Plus overhauls Aussie eq

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
The $1.3 billion industry fund Club Plus Super has axed the majority of its Aussie equities investment managers - leaving the fund with just four major managers to take care of a $400 million domestic equities portfolio. Club Plus Super, the industry ...