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State Street launches investment governance tool

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
State Street Corporation has launched a series of investment analytics tools to help superannuation funds prepare for the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) prudential standard SPS 530 on investment governance. The tool allows trustees ...

Qantas Super takes flight with iqBoard

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
... Groups own cloud computing environment, iqCloud, and the whole system has been carefully secured and encrypted. "There are a series of passwords that secure the application and documents can be remotely deleted in case a device is hacked or lost," Sammells ...

Macquarie launches SMSF Toolkit for advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
... technical materials. The new service provides a good practice section to help advisers engage future SMSF clients and a series of top 10 tips on how to set up, manage and wind up an SMSF. It offers materials such as templates and guides to conduct a ...

Coalition wants fund governance changes: Fletcher

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... trustee arrangements are structured. "The Coalition has committed to improve superannuation governance, by implementing a series of corporate governance reforms recommended by the Cooper Review but not progressed by Labor," said Fletcher. Fletcher said ...

Ripoll thanks industry for reforms support

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... with the system were not supported in Parliament by the Opposition. "The inquiry's bipartisan found there was a case for a series of carefully considered recommendations to enhance consumer confidence and protection, and enhance professionalism within ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
... cent, to 4,910.8 points. NEW YORK - US stocks are treading in place ahead of a key consumer confidence report, despite a series of better-than-expected company earnings. In the first five minutes of trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 10.75 ...

VicSuper and Aust Ethical adopt after-tax benchmark

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... equity assets under management - have adopted an after-tax benchmark from the industry standard FTSE ASFA Australia Index Series. Both funds will be using the franking credit tranches of the FTSE ASFA Australia Index Series as the performance benchmarks ...

Beggar me not my neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
... dropped by 37K to 335K in the week ended 12 January - much less than the expected 369K. To be sure, this is a volatile series and care must be taken to interpret one week's data. Then again, the broader picture is lookin' good. The number of claims has ...

Debt ceiling forces US Treasury to suspend TSP contribs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... akin to an industry fund for US federal employees and uniformed services personnel. Its investments are constructed on a series of BlackRock exchange traded funds (ETF) that underpin choices of government securities, fixed income, US equities, US small ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... December and the Australian Bureau of Statistics housing finance for November are due to be released. ANZ job advertisements series for December will also be published. Shares in steelmaker BlueScope fell two cents, or 0.54 per cent, to $3.68, after ...