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Aust(Q) merger with AustralianSuper 'in members' interest'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... age, the need for more options has presented itself. "A number of members have said, 'You haven't got a suitable pension product,'" Henricks said. The fund has been looking for a suitable merger for the past 12 months, and it was a unanimous board decision ...

Professional Associations Super rebrands to Kinetic Super

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
... Kinetic Super brand name and will launch on 1 July 2013. It will offer a MySuper and Choice option, as well as a pension product. The 355,000 member fund has also released a transition site which includes details of the fund's transition plan. Frank ...

Big year in platforms and super: AMP Fin Services

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
... management (AUM) increased $2.5 billion to $4.7 billion driven by strong cash inflows. AMP's retail superannuation and pension product, AMP Flexible Super also boosted the numbers. The company also saw a growth in the number of financial planners and ...

Online tool for evaluating super

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
Investment research provider Lonsec, in partnership with a superannuation research company, today released the Lonsec super comparator, an online tool that allows advisers to easily compare all types of superannuation offerings. The first offering from ...

AvSuper chairman to step down

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
AvSuper chairman Tom Grant will step down as of 1 January 2013, according to the industry fund. AvSuper is the profit-for-members super fund dedicated to the aviation and aviation safety industries with more than $1.2 billion in funds under management. ...

APRA updates MySuper FAQ guide

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
... extend to the pension lifestage of a fund member but APRA noted "there is no legislative or regulatory barrier to a pension product having the same underlying investment strategy as a MySuper product". Trustees will have four years to transition their ...

UK advisers should shift to planning

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
UK wealth sector intermediaries should stop providing advice and instead shift their focus to financial planning, says a new report from a conservative libertarian think tank. The report, 'Put the saver first, Catalysing a savings culture' by the Centre ...

AMP results show strong growth for products

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2012
... million for the quarter compared to a net cash inflow of $68 million in Q1 2011. AMP's retail superannuation and pension product, AMP Flexible Super, had net cashflows of $581 million for the quarter, compared to $662 million for Q1 2011 while assets ...

Super tax concessions in spotlight

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
... high taxes, is through tax concessions," Vamos told Financial Standard. Vamos referred to narrow definitions of a pension product and the current treatment of income from annuities that won't be realised until a future point in time as present regulatory ...

MLC cuts PDS down on flagship products

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
In accordance with the Government's June 22 deadline, MLC has cut the PDS for two of its flagship products to the required eight-page short-form after already releasing a short-form PDS for its MLC MasterKey Business Super in November last year. The ...