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Ten years is too short: CBI

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
The UK's pension regulator should investigate the funding plans of companies where deficit repayments will take more than 15 years, rather than the current ten, said a key industry body. According to an "eight point action plan" by UK business industry ...

ESSSuper closes Cash Plus option

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
The $14 billion Emergency Services & State Super has closed the doors of its cash plus strategy six months after the introduction of its pure cash option. According to a statement on the ESSSuper website, the fund closed its cash plus option to new ...

Investors hang on to managed futures

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
Managed futures may have performed poorly in the last three months but retail investors in MAN Investments' OM-IP products are not putting their hands up for redemptions, said the firm. Hersh Gandhi, head of product development in Australia for the ...

NAB Super introduces binding death benefits

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
Members of the $3.1 billion corporate fund NAB Group Superannuation Fund can now apply for binding death benefit nominations. The fund, which said in March that it was considering introducing the benefit, are now allowing members to provide the fund ...

Tweeting won't get you jobs

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
More than 80 per cent of Australian jobseekers, including those in financial services, dismiss social networking as a way to find out about new jobs. A new Hays survey of around 800 Australian job hunters show that almost one in two said social networking ...

Mixed reaction on shorting ban lift

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
From applause to criticism, industry reactions have been mixed towards ASIC's announcement today that it had lifted the ban on covered short selling of financial securities. ASIC today lifted the ban which was first put in place on 21 September last ...

Westpac exec joins NAB Private Wealth

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
Former Westpac Private Bank state manager Will Hamilton moves to NAB Private Wealth to become the division's general manager of wealth services. Hamilton, who will report to Angela Mentis, executive general manager of NAB Private Wealth, was previously ...

Plum members avoid switching

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
Bucking the trend of high volumes of super members switching to cash, Plum Financial Services has reported that less than 2 per cent of its assets were switched to cash in the last 12 months despite the market crash as members hang on to investments. ...

LGsuper members satisfied with fund

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
Members of the $3.7 billion Queensland local government fund LGsuper have given the super fund two thumbs up for its products and services. Results from a poll conducted late last year by MCR show 86 per cent of 850 LGsuper members rated the fund as ...

UniSuper hires former CFS chief as CIO

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
The $21 billion UniSuper has appointed former Colonial First State Investment Management chief executive John Pearce as its chief investment officer, following the departure of its long-standing CIO, David St. John. Pearce, who previously headed CFS ...