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Speed bumps to annuities

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
Existing government rules on certain retirement products are stifling growth and innovation in annuities - affecting how super funds can address longevity risk, according to a Towers Watson report. Under the current tax and the age pension means test ...

Russell moves into industry fund admin

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... fund sphere where clients are currently dominated by Australian Administration Services and Superpartners. According to research house Rainmaker, Russell's clients are mainly corporates including super funds from Qantas, Westpac, BHP Billiton and BlueScope ...

Super exec pay on the table

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
Super fund chief investment officers are paid more than their chief executives, according to new research to be discussed at the Conference of Major Super Funds (CMSF) next week. The yet-to-be released report by McGuirk Management Consultants, a long-time ...

Aussie funds fail transparency test

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... have to publish portfolio holdings, considered to be very a basic disclosure requirement by international standards, research house Morningstar said in its Global Fund Investor Experience 2011 report. They were the only two countries out of 22 involved ...

FSS and Health Super merger on track

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... merger would provide opportunity scale to help it expand its services. The fund keeps costs down by ensuring thorough research and a profit and loss analysis on all services and products. It uses a large passive core index plus satellite managers who ...

Advisers compare insurance on smartphones

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... Chandrahasan said. Blue Gum also counts the National Australia Bank, Commonwealth and MLC as clients. According to Zurich research conducted last year, about 47 per cent of financial advisers surveyed reportedly use a smart phone and of those users ...

Equity Trustees names head of wealth mgmt

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... management in the interim. Galagher's former roles include economist in the Reserve Bank of Australia's economics and research department and roles at IOOF, Commonwealth Funds Management and Tyndall Investments. He will continue on as head of marketing ...

Frontier to appoint CEO

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... seven-person committee called the Frontier Investment Policy and Strategy Committee (IPSC), which replaces the group's manager research and investment research forums. Heading the committee is Trafford-Walker as chair, Kristian Fok as deputy chair and ...

Rising oil prices add to sovereign risk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... released a further report yesterday increasing their estimate of the downside risks of the Japan earthquake disaster. The research firm said the economic damage would be much larger than that from the benchmark first used in their assessment, based on ...

ASIC starts shadow shopping

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... advice available to consumers in a new shadow shopping exercise that will start this year. ASIC will begin shadow shopping research to judge the quality of financial advice being given to retirees, but it said it is not about 'naming and shaming' advisers ...