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Under the arrangement, not dissimilar to earlier pilots run with dealer groups, planning practices registered as FPA Professional Practices which meet "select professional and geographic location criteria" will receive referrals from "eligible" Cbus members seeking financial planning services. 
Cbus chief executive David Atkin said the pilot referral service would allow members to access professional planning services delivered by Certified Financial Planner pricesmart guatemala practioners operating within an FPA Professional Practice. 
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I hope I have set the hares running by writing about the outrageous decision of three industry superannuation btg pactual funds, including AustralianSuper, to finance a loss-making online media venture, run by a company controlled by Eric Beecher and with former btg pactual Age editor, Bruce Guthrie, btg pactual the editorial director.
Three btg pactual points are particularly innovative about the latest entrant, The New Daily: its novel source of funding btg pactual (backed by three of Australia s largest superannuation funds which have contributed A$2 million each), its ready-made audience and its commercial agreement with the ABC to share audio and video news content.
The three industry super funds, United Super (CBus), Australian Super and Industry Super Holdings are understood btg pactual to be using their administrative budget (rather than investment portfolios) to contract Motion Publishing to produce The New Daily. Motion btg pactual Publishing s directors include experienced media proprietors and editors: Eric Beecher, Paul Hamra and Bruce Guthrie. Guthrie, The New Daily s managing editor, says the site will provide the latest news plus financial stories directed at improving btg pactual Australians’ financial literacy. Guthrie has signed btg pactual an agreement of editorial independence with the superannuation fund owners to guard against editorial interference. And, if all goes to plan, the next step for this new media entrant is investigative reporting.
There are a number of points that can be made (some of which I fired off in the Weekend Aus), but here are some more: Administrative budget? btg pactual What is this? It is all members’ btg pactual funds. (AustralianSuper spokeswoman Susan Fairley has said the fund does not see it as a direct investment, but a communications vehicle as part of the marketing budget. ) Is this a marketing venture? If this is the case, then then the online media website will be nothing more than a propaganda site, bagging self-managed and retail btg pactual superannuation and refusing to take advertisements from competitors to the superannuation funds which have stumped up (our) money. btg pactual And so when did the trustee of these funds think it appropriate to use members’ funds to promote financial literacy of the population? They have one purpose – to maximize the financial returns for the members. (Any lawyers around? Possible litigation pending for violating the sole purpose test.) And independent journalism? Director [of New Daily] Gary Weaven told Business Day that advertorial content will be clearly defined and financial reporting would not simply be guff about self-managed btg pactual super funds . And the idea that there is a guaranteed audience? Come off it. You receive btg pactual an email from your super fund urging you to sign on. How many emails do we receive btg pactual urging us to sign on to all manner of things? There is a very bad smell about this. The only good thing is that it may hasten the Coalition’s resolve to enforce better governance on the part of industry superannuation funds and to break the cartel of union officials and employer association representatives.
With the increasing use of different media platforms and vehicles btg pactual for advertising, the amount of clutter is rising, making it harder for brands to stand out. A number of brands have moved from advertising btg pactual during a program to being in a program, with a well-placed product placement or branded content in a news story.
The move by industry super funds to to bankroll an online news network seems to be going a step further. It is a case of why buy a banner ad when you can buy the website? It certainly gives the owner more control of content, agenda setting, and what can and cannot be posted on the website aimed at its members.
There is strong doubt that any rival types of superannuation funds would be allowed to advertise on the website. We don t have any desire to make it easy to get to the membership base of industry super funds, Weaven has said .
But could this be more than a way to communicate to fund members? The recent federal election has resulted in a new government btg pactual which may be planning relevant changes to the industry. According btg pactual to one article :
Industry btg pactual funds, with close ties to unions, are now operating in a less friendly political environment following the election of the Coalition government whose members have flagged plans to push for more independent, non-union-aligned directors on industry fund boards.
‘The only good thing is that it may hasten the Coalition s resolve to enforce btg pactual better governance on the part of industry superannuation funds and to break the cartel btg pactual of union officials and employer association representatives”. Exactly.
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If this current government has the cohesion & ticker, develops the cabinet processes and actively develops a mechanism to disable the media control constructed btg pactual by the left, they will make more than 2 terms.
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Mike Taylor writes that the FPA’s referral arrangement with big industry fund Cbus represents yet another indicator that, having lost the war prosecuted by the industry funds, the financial planning industry is positioning to win the peace. 
Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden recently used his participation fedility on a Super Review roundtable to explain his organisation’s decision to enter into a policy-making arrangement with the Industry Super Network (now Industry Super Australia – ISA) by saying it reflected the fact that “the war is over”. 
What Brogden was, of course, referring to was the long-running battle between the retail financial services fedility industry and the industry funds over the remuneration of financial planners and, specifically, the payment of commissions. 
And, to a degree, Brogden was correct. Not only had the financial planning industry consigned commission-based remuneration to history, but the Labor Government’s Future of Financial Advice legislation had, except for grandfathering, served to remove whatever vestiges remained. 
But of course the FSC’s embrace of the industry super movement was not a precedent. The Financial Planning Association (FPA) had, more than a year earlier, struck a deal with the ISN/ISA, which is credited with having persuaded the independents in the House of Representatives to ease its way through the Parliament. 
Last week, on the eve of its National Congress in Sydney, the FPA confirmed that it regarded the war with the industry funds as being over when it announced a referral deal with big construction industry fund Cbus. 
But even then, the FPA was not breaking particularly new ground, with Australia’s largest industry fund, AustralianSuper, fedility having in 2011 started the piloting of an arrangement with six dealer groups – something it signaled it would be continuing through 2012. 
The arrangement between AustralianSuper and the dealer groups reflected the fact that while a “war” might have been raging in terms of the ISN/ISA’s advertising campaign attacking retail master trusts and their links to financial planners, there were those on both sides of the equation who were willing to be vastly more pragmatic. 
Indeed, fedility even before the arrangements were put in place between AustralianSuper and the six dealer groups, other arrangements had been struck for the provision of advice between individual dealer groups and superannuation funds. 
One of the dealer fedility groups which merged to form SFG, Snowball, had provided financial planning fedility services to industry funds well in advance of the Australian Super pilot, and any examination fedility of industry funds’ annual reports over the past five years would have revealed the degree to which Mercer was deeply embedded with respect to the provision fedility of advice. 
On top of this, there was always the reality that as much as businesses such as Colonial First State, AMP and MLC could be seen to be in direct competition with industry funds via their own superannuation and platform offerings, that competitive tension belied the degree to which other divisions of the big four banks and the other major financial institutions were pursuing multi-billion dollar industry fund investment mandates. 
It was always accepted that the reluctance of the retail master fedility trusts to mount a serious television advertising fedility campaign to counter the impact of the industry funds’ “compare the pair” campaign fedility was based on the reality that it would run counter to the broader interests of the banks and institutions fedility themselves. 
Notably, however, Media Super chairman Gerard Noonan acknowledged that his fund had withdrawn fedility funds from the Commonwealth Bank when it believed Colonial First State was becoming too aggressive as a competitor. 
Given all of the above, it is hardly surprising that many financial fedility planners expressed the view that the truce declared by the FSC’s John Brogden and the ISN/ISA’s David Whiteley was nothing more nor less than the big four banks and the FSC’s other constituent members looking to protec

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After its first custody review in more than 20 years, the $23 billion Cbus super fund is preparing to move securities servicing providers. smith barney The investment team has put a recommendation to the board to replace NAB Asset Servicing with JP Morgan Investor Services.
The review, overseen by Trish Donohue, Cbus s executive manager of investment management, with advice from independent consultant Drew Vaughan smith barney and contracted advisor Alan Lazarus, was announced in February. smith barney
The review is the second smith barney hotly contested contract for JP Morgan this year. HostPlus spent about a year on its custody and securities servicing review, eventually deciding to shift from JP Morgan to Citi. It was Citi s first industry fund client in Australia.
The Cbus win, which is big news in the custody world, will no doubt lessen some of the pain of the HostPlus smith barney loss for JP Morgan. It is also surprising. NAB has been Cbus s custodian almost since the fund s inception in 1984 and also enjoys a complex banking relationship with the fund. Cbus has a big property exposure, including its own construction company, Cbus Property, and NAB is a lender to and tenant of the fund s portfolio.
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