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AAS, Pillar and Superpartners brace for SuperStream

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
Three of Australia's largest fund administrators - AAS, Pillar Administration and Superpartners - have formed an affiliation that will take on board the recommendations from the Cooper Review to improve super fund back office efficiencies. The Superannuation ...

Admins team up for rollover revolution

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2010
Three of the country's biggest administrators - AAS, Pillar Administration and Superpartners - are joining forces to set up a standard of protocols for fund rollovers. In a move in line with the Government's initiative to use Medicare as a small business ...

Govt selects Medicare to run national clearinghouse

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
Industry bodies have welcomed the government's move to provide a free superannuation clearinghouse system for small businesses through Medicare - but questions arise whether the healthcare agency is the right choice or a rushed decision. Superannuation ...

IAG & NRMA fund rejigs insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
The IAG & NRMA Superannuation Plan has re-appointed CommInsure as its insurer, repriced its insurance premiums and is boosting social, environmental and corporate governance strategies following its signing of the UN PRI. The plan, which had $805 million ...

We are the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
... Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as he went a-visiting in the good old US of A. This was a perfectly executed diplomatic protocol if ever there was one - and good for Australia's sound bites as well. For how do you expect a host to behave, especially ...

FIX adoption critical to growth

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... says an industry expert. Michael Corcoran, ITG head of sales and trading in Australia and a speaker at this week's FIX Protocol Electronic Trading conference, said a poll conducted at the event showed 26 per cent of industry personnel still place orders ...

Instinet granted clearing membership

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
... users with low cost trading using its high-capacity, innovative pricing structure and open Financial Information eXchange protocol-based architecture.

ASX firms more carbon clear

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
... found the quality of carbon reporting had improved with 34 per cent reporting emissions in-line with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, a one per cent increase on the previous year's analysis. Textile, apparel & luxury goods, airlines, electric utilities and ...

CalPERS halts lending to big four

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
The $274 billion California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has temporarily stopped the lending of troubled Wachovia, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and State Street shares. Anne Stausboll, interim chief investment officer of CalPERS ...

AustralianSuper sticks with securities lending

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
AustralianSuper has reviewed its securities lending protocols and decided to continue the practice. "AustralianSuper, similar to most super funds, employs a range of short and long-selling strategies in order to maximise investment returns to members," ...