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Appleyard defends free SMSF service

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
CleverSuper head Chris Appleyard has defended his organisation's plans to launch a "free self-managed super fund [SMSF] service for every Australian." Yesterday Financial Standard reported that the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) ...

MSI launches three new SIV funds

HARRY PAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014
Macquarie Specialist Investments (MSI) has launched three new funds, broadening its Significant Investment Visa (SIV) following the 888 Fund that was established last year. Conservative, Balanced and Growth funds are the new three that MSI has launched. ...

Frontier market corporate governance greatly improved

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014
Greater local competition, improved governance and the involvement of institutional investors has greatly increased the investment prospects of the world's frontier markets, according to emerging market specialist Advance Emerging Capital. Frontier ...

Men continue to dominate super fund boards

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014
Men still heavily dominate the boards of superannuation funds, with just one fifth of trustee positions being held by women, according to statistics released by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). The APRA statistics reveal that the ...

FSC questions pertinence of APRA super stats

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has questioned the pertinence of figures released by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) last week that show the investment returns of not-for-profit superannuation consistently outperforming those ...

APRA issues warning on group risk

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
Insurance regulator the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has issued a warning that while the overall life insurance is in reasonable financial shape, sustained pressure on the group risk sector is becoming a strategic threat that insurers ...

Government scraps Labor's annuities reforms

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2013
The government will not proceed with Labor's plan to grant tax concessions to retirement income derived from deferred lifetime annuities (DLAs). Under Labor's proposed legislation announced as part of the 2013-14 budget, DLA earnings would have received ...

Advisers "hopeful" to hear FoFA changes before 2014

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
The financial advice sector is hopeful that the government will make public the proposed changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) regulation before the end of the year. "It is a question of timing, but we are hopeful this can be solved before ...

One-stop-shop firms surge to gain scale against big instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
The number of partnerships and mergers between financial planning and accountancy firms is increasing as independent businesses brace to gain scale against the big institutionally-aligned groups. Industry concentration in the past years has strengthened ...

Shale gas revolution could be worldwide

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
The shale gas revolution of North America is "the big deal" and could become a worldwide phenomenon, according to T Rowe Price portfolio specialist, global equities Kurt Umbarger. Umbarger said that the US was "really, truly on the road to becoming ...