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AMP, Bendigo and MTAA get MySuper licenses

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2013
AMP, Bendigo and MTAA Super are the latest superannuation groups to receive MySuper authorisation, taking the number of MySuper products to 62 just four months from the 1 January 2014 deadline. AMP has named its two MySuper products AMP MySuper No 1 ...

Investment income fuels life insurance sector

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2013
Life insurance industry figures released today by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) paint a picture of a robust industry albeit one preparing for some adjustment. In its June 2013 life insurance statistics report the regulator has ...

AMP profits up 5.4% despite insurance disappointment

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2013
AMP Limited's half-year profits are up 5.4% to $393 million following strong performance from its wealth management and investment businesses. The disappointing performance of the financial services company's insurance business was the only black mark ...

AMP appoints Meller as new CEO

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2013

AUI takes on former Morgan Stanley exec

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has appointed Paul Banks as head of institutional business. Reporting to general manager of funds management Fiona Dunn, Banks will be responsible for building AUI's relationships with the institutional market. Banks ...

Twitter usage on the rise

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
Social media is now used by 72% of online adults in the US and Twitter usage has almost doubled, with usage among young people growing the fastest. The results are part of the latest research to come out of US Pew Research Center's Internet and American ...

Super funds should use soft power, not quotas to fix gender equality

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
Imposed quotas are much less likely to advance the cause of workplace gender equality than super funds exerting their considerable soft power to influence the industry, companies in which they invest and service providers. Helen Conway, director of ...

Cut welfare, give savings to defence: UK minister

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013
In a possible warning of political arguments Australia may confront in coming decades when the national budget faces mounting aged care and pension costs, a leading UK government minister has proposed cutting welfare and diverting the savings to the ...

Strong returns put UniSuper back in the black

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013
Strong investment returns from rebounding capital markets have strengthened UniSuper's balance sheet sufficiently to enable the fund trustee board to announce they no longer need to consider reducing members' benefits to maintain the fund's solvency. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
... Industry Group/Commonwealth Bank is scheduled to release the Australian Performance of Services Index (PSI) for July, while Dun and Bradstreet puts out its business expectations survey. Meanwhile, the TD Securities/Melbourne Institute inflation gauge ...