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MLC MasterKey Business Super wins $34m in mandates

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
MLC MasterKey Business Super has won three corporate super mandates worth $34 million. The employers who have just signed on to MasterKey Business Super are McMillan Shakespeare, Kentz Engineering and Swisse Vitamins. The $34 million boost would take ...

Super fund returns almost flat

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... fallen from near 9% in March to 6.4% in May. Not-for-profit funds achieved median 12 month returns of nil and corporate master trusts -1.7%, resulting in a segment gap of 2.1 percentage points. Over five years the segment gap is again 2.0 percentage ...

Go ahead Europe, make my day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
Stop right there. If you believe that last night's reversal of fortune on Wall Street was really, truly because of "improved data on the US housing market" as the Australian Financial Review puts it or "as Home Data Tempers Economic Concern," as per ...

Cost pressures spark Vanguard fee cuts

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... transparency around the FOFA piece is obviously going to put pressure on the planner fees, but also up into the platform, master trust space and of course into asset management," he said when commenting on fee structures and the increasing popularity ...

ASIC winds up unregistered managed investment scheme

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... the Supreme Court also made final orders appointing Barry Taylor of HLB Mann Judd as liquidator of the scheme, known as Master Fund. The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) believes the Master Fund operated from October 2004 until December ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2012
... whether that's sustainable I still question," he said. "There seems to be a few people hoping that we're going to see a master plan developed at the EU summit at the end of the month." The enthusiasm comes after the All Ordinaries index dipped below ...

Eurozone to craft a reforms roadmap

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... initially apply just to the 17-nation eurozone and not the 27-member European Union as a whole. Reports of the eurozone 'master plan' coincide with a warning from the recently instated French finance minister, Pierre Moscovici, that a Greek exit from ...

UHNW households top global growth: BCG

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... "But wealth managers will still need to continue their cost-cutting and pricing initiatives, refocus on client discovery, master the ever-shifting regulatory environment, bolster risk management, and find ways to use alternative business models to their ...

Bulls run

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
Didn't they already ban the running with the bulls in Spain? Ahh yes, my bad. The Spanish region of Catalonia only banned bullfighting, but approved running with them. For bullfighting kills bulls, running with them only kills... ehem, people. I was ...

The end is not nigh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... at Spain and then the Eurozone will be no more. So that's my base case Virginia. I was in Europe in 1987 studying for my master's degree (yes, I'm ancient) at the time when all of Europe was excited and bragging about their currency unification. So much ...