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Master trusts and industry funds drive risk growth

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
Employer master trusts and industry funds will provide more risk insurance over the next 15 years, according to Rice Warner Actuaries research. The actuary's research found life risk insurance sold within employer master trusts is expected to grow at ...

Corporate super adjusts to crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
Corporate master trusts are going back to the negotiating table to cater for clients that have suffered large-scale redundancies due to the market downturn. Greg Healy, AMP's director of corporate superannuation, said that there have been cases where ...

APRA fund level reporting proposals dangerous

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... a major difficulty, said IFSA as they pointed to a lack of standards regarding how some funds disclose returns. "While trusts that are IFSA members are reporting performance that is more reflective of member experience, their performance looks poorer ...

Local super funds welcome Obama admin move

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... some of these areas. We have been concerned for some time about listed trust disclosure, particularly externally managed trusts," he said. "They have continued to have a lag in performance in regards to disclosure and executive renumeration and the genuine ...

End 'set and forget' strategy: van Eyk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... "Prior to the beginning of 2008, financial advisers had portfolios that consisted of Australian equities and listed property trusts which had previously done well, but this is a completely different environment so advisers need to take account liquidity ...

NAB Super hands investments to JANA

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
... receiving approximately 25 per cent of the proceeds in cash and the remainder as equity in two major unlisted property trusts - Lend Lease's Core Plus Fund and Goodman Australia's Industrial Fund. Of the four properties - two industrial properties in ...

Infrastructure still key to returns

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
... ability to boost the local economy by creating jobs and stimulating nation-building projects. "If we invested in listed trusts we would have much better liquidity. But as long term investors seeking stable returns we are willing to trade off this liquidity ...

What a member wants

... beneficiaries who are not very pro-active with their fund. The confusion around whether super funds should behave as traditional trusts or whether they should evolve to behave like listed companies, and therefore members as shareholders, is further compounded ...

Investors back AUI property proposal

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
... retail property fund. A recent media report claimed that AUI had failed to win investor support to convert the five property trusts and syndicates into the mega fund. However, AUI yesterday said that this was not the case - in fact investors in its Retail ...

Planners to behave like CFOs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... managing the client, understanding their financial needs. As needs come up, project managing those solutions acorss wills, trusts and life insurance." However, Mulcare said transitioning to this advice model had pricing and technology implications. He ...