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What is the future of transition management?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH | WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014

... news for the remaining players' market share, there are also dangers. In particular, there is a growing trend for superannuation funds - which make up the bulk of transition managers' clients - to bring the management of mandate transition in house. ...

FSC lobbies against super "7 year gap"

LAURA MILLAN | WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014

The Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive John Brogden has asked for superannuation access age to be lifted, to close the "seven year gap" with the pension age. "There is a 7 year gap between the age you can access your superannuation and ...

IPA calls for repeal of 10% rule

MARK SMITH | WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014

... '10% rule', which restricts a number of Australians from making personal concessional contributions into their superannuation. Currently if a taxpayer earns more than 10% of their total income from employment services they are unable to make personal ...

Protection needed if pension age increased: AIST

LAURA MILLAN | TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014

The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) said that an increase in the pension age should be accompanied by measures to protect older Australians who are unable to work longer. The statement follows a speech by Treasurer Joe Hockey ...

Could government issue its own annuities?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH | TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014

... infrastructure, and inflation linked bonds. Most submissions that dealt with this topic - including the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), the Actuaries Institute, UniSuper and Challenger - focused on the need to remove regulatory ...

Professor proposes cheap longevity insurance design

JAMES FERNYHOUGH | TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014

A Canadian finance professor has come up with a way of making lifetime annuities affordable by designing them so they only pay out if the market does badly. According to Moshe A. Milevsky of York University, Toronto, while lifetime and deferred lifetime ...

Younger Australians taking interest in superannuation

STAFF WRITER | TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014

Younger people are taking a more active interest in their superannuation, according to the latest quarterly MLC Wealth Sentiment Survey. In a break from tradition where younger people have typically been disengaged with their savings, the survey found ...

Cbus to launch 'self-managed' product

JAMES FERNYHOUGH | MONDAY, 14 APR 2014

Industry fund Cbus will launch a member direct investment (MDI) option in mid-2014, following the lead of a number of other industry funds seeking to stem the flow to self-managed super funds (SMSFs). Referring to the new option as a 'self-managed product' ...

SMSFs want access to infrastructure and corporate bonds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH | MONDAY, 14 APR 2014

... returns than cash but better protection than equities. But SPAA also said that, as the largest pool of funds in the superannuation system, opening infrastructure and corporate bonds to SMSF investment would give businesses and governments access to a ...

Hockey signals pension age might climb to 70

ALEX DUNNIN | FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014

Treasurer Joe Hockey has issued veiled warnings that welfare spending and age pension structures will need to be changed say by raising the pension age to make them affordable. In a major speech he presented this week to the 'The Global Age of Responsibility ...

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Treasury responds to Debelle's review into the AOFM

KARREN VERGARA

Treasury has responded to the Guy Debelle-led review into the Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM), agreeing to all six recommendations.

Bravura ups guidance, reports earnings increase

RIDDHIMA TALWANI

Bravura Solutions informed investors cost discipline will protect its full year earnings result after a client migrated to a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) early in the year.

MaxCap hires from Vanguard, AustralianSuper

MATTHEW WAI

MaxCap has welcomed two senior directors, including a portfolio manager from Australia's largest super fund, reporting to the recently named chief executive Kylie Robb.

Zenith snags mandate from Granite Bay

MATTHEW WAI

Granite Bay Private Wealth has selected Zenith Investment Partners to support their investment governance and due diligence.

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