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FEATURE: The metamorphosis of custody

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... have the excitement of asset management, the endless controversy of financial advice, or the sheer enormity of superannuation. It is a vital but boring service, and that's that. But dig down a bit and there turns out to be more going on in this discreet ...

Telstra offers incentives to switch DB members to accumulation

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
... include a favourable adjustment to the Final Average Salary (FAS) calculation, additional take-home pay and increased superannuation contributions for a period of time if they transfer to accumulation. Telstra Super has organised around 120 seminars ...

PIMCO names new head of Australia

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
... client service to both our fast growing Financial Adviser client base and our longer standing institutional and superannuation fund relationships."

UK annuities policy dubbed 'political schizophrenia'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
... compulsory annuitisation in Australia. Speaking at an event on infrastructure investment hosted by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) in Sydney, National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) chief executive Joanne Segars said ...

Giant NSW fund names investment team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
State Super's Mark O'Brien has been appointed the general manager of investments of three amalgamated New South Wales state funds. The amalgamation of Safety, Return to Work and Support Division (SRWSD), SAS Trustee Corporation (STC) and NSW Treasury ...

SMSFs get off lightly in FSI interim report

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
Self-managed superannuation funds look unlikely to face any major regulatory overhauls as a result of the Financial System Inquiry (FSI), recommendations made in the interim report suggest. The FSI interim report dedicated a short section to SMSFs ...

FSI questions viability of franking credits

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... on the government coffers. "A growing proportion of Australian equities has been, and is expected to be, held in superannuation accounts in retirement. The Inquiry notes that, due to refundable imputation credits and tax-free superannuation in retirement ...

Green appointed CEO MetLife Korea

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... solutions, and before that CEO of AIA Australia. Prior to this role he held senior positions at several leading industry superannuation funds in Australia. Green, who will be based in Seoul reporting directly to Christopher Townsend, MetLife's President ...

Confidence key to financial future: Murray

COLIN BRINSDEN, AAP ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
The first review of the financial system since 1997 may result in lower superannuation fund fees and slow the erosion of retirement nest eggs. At a time when financial advisers and the Commonwealth Bank are under a cloud, the head of the financial system ...

CFMEU organiser posed as Cbus employee

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... Brian Fitzpatrick said the CFMEU had got Cbus members' information from the super fund in order to chase up unpaid superannuation from employer Lis-Con. Fitzpatrick said he had called three employees using phone numbers obtained from Cbus, all of whom ...