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AFA upgrades Female Excellence award with business scholarship

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... Financial Advisers (AFA) has opened nominations for the 2014 Female Excellence in Advice Award, which this year includes a master class for finalists at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM). The award recognises the contributions of women ...

Buffett discloses new Verizon investment

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
Warren Buffett's company has disclosed a new investment of 11 million shares in Verizon Communications, and an increase in its stakes in Wal-Mart and IBM. Berkshire Hathaway on Thursday revealed the changes to its $US106 billion ($A114.69 billion) portfolio ...

CFS awarded 'Best Platform Overall'

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... Offering' in the recent Investment Trends December 2013 Platform Benchmarking Report CFS FirstChoice platform was awarded 'Best Master Trust' and 'Best Reporting Tools'. "Supporting advisers in growing their business and increasing business efficiency ...

Super on track for double-digit year

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... annual returns were 7.0% pa. Not-for-profit super funds achieved 12 month returns of 12.9% and retail funds (ie corporate master trusts) achieved 11.5% for a segment gap of 1.4 percentage points. The long term segment gap is only 0.2 percentage points ...

Compliance absorbs half of platforms' development budget

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... followed by the Macquarie Wrap, which was equalled by the Perpetual Private Wrap. The is based on analyst reviews comparing 25 master trust and wrap platforms across over 454 aspects of their service offerings.

PROFILE: Cbus chief executive David Atkin

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
"An idyllic tropical life" is how David Atkin describes his childhood in Papua New Guinea. While his parents taught in a local school, he spent his days "wandering around the forest, being looked after by the locals, exploring every day, having a lot ...

Industry fund claims experience worse than retail: PWC

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... Insurance Conference, Rafe said that "in industry funds, the claims experience has deteriorated lately." He said that "master trusts have self-selected themselves a healthier client base" and added that "the employers of master trusts seem to be closer ...

Super returns up slightly to 12.8pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... have no performance history. Not-for-profit super funds achieved 12 month returns of 13.1% and retail funds (ie corporate master trusts) achieved 11.3% for a segment gap of 1.8 percentage points. The survivorship biases now inherent in the rebooted workplace ...

CommInsure nabs ANZ head of insurance

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... confident he will deliver strong results given his track record as an experienced insurance executive." Harrison holds a Master of Business Administration from University of Technology, Sydney and a Bachelor of Economics from University of Queensland ...

NAB and Deutsche Bank extend custody relationship

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
... custodian in the Australian market with $567 billion in assets under custody for Australian investors. It provides custody, master custody, investment administration and other related services to a range of locally and internationally domiciled clien ...