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Government must lift annuities impediments: ASFA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... Centrelink exempting deferred annuities from the asset and income tests during the period prior to payment, and more uniform assessment of new post-retirement products. Other areas covered were: the development of scaled advice operating guidelines ...

Counting up and counting down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... including another LTRO if needed, to maintain the short-term money market rates at a level which is warranted by our assessment of inflation in the medium term." Encouraging words. But am sure Super Mario's also nervously counting up and counting dow ...

Gone fishin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2013

Taper? What taper?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2013

BUSSQ members happiest in Australia

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013
... 'good' or 'very good' rating. Investment Trends' Uwe Helmes said two aspects of BUSSQ's service stood out. "Members' assessment of the advice offering was a key driver for BUSSQ's high ratings, as well as the company's arrears process which helps members ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
... wind-down. Tokyo closed flat, edging up 10.95 points to 14,064.82, with little reaction after the Bank of Japan upgraded its assessment of the world's third largest economy. Seoul finished up 0.96 per cent, or 18.62 points, at 1,951.65, while Hong Kong ...

Data security emerging as a superannuation risk

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... data security management to their IT departments. David Muscat, chief operating officer of data security and threat assessment group Pure Hacking, said just as the deposit taking financial institutions have had to develop data security protocols as their ...

Whiteley and Brogden join forces to condemn CPA report

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013
... by ISN chief executive David Whiteley and FSC chief executive John Brogden, called the report a "flawed and narrow assessment" of super that "adds little to an informed public debate on how to make the system better." The two chief executives went on ...

APRA to focus on reinsurers

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013
... in life insurance and their traditional tasks involve determining premium scales, designing new types of policies, assessment of risks, formulation of corporate investment policy, testing of profitability and allocation of surplus to policyholders and ...

IPA joins Kaplan in support of ASIC adviser training stance

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013