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Financial Synergy to release SuperStream-friendly platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
... Super legislative changes such as MySuper, SuperStream and Australian Taxation Office integration for unclaimed superannuation money and lost member reporting. Financial Synergy, which serves about thirty funds, has worked closely with its clients to ...

Nominations in for the CIO and COO Year Awards

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
... operating officer of the Year Awards, to be held on May 7 in Melbourne. The awards aim to recognise the work done by superannuation fund executives and to encourage best practice by assisting them in their education at an international level. The chair ...

Former SMSF adviser sentenced

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
A former self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) adviser was sentenced after pleading guilty to one count of lodging a false statement with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Craig Gerard Dangar was convicted and released subject ...

Facebook users moving on

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
Just as wealth management and superannuation marketers have begun adapting to social media platforms such as Facebook, signs are emerging that the consumer market may already be moving on. The Socialmedia Today forum in the US has just published an ...

HOSTPLUS awards custody tender to Citi, gets MySuper licence

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
HOSTPLUS has appointed Citi its global custodian as part of its transformation to becoming a pooled superannuation trust (PST) according to chief investment officer Sam Sicilia. Sicilia told the Financial Standard that Citi won the tender after an 18-month ...

APRA warns licensees warning about 3 day rollovers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has today written to RSE licensees advising them of their new obligations to process rollovers within three days and use the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) developed SuperTIC service as their means ...

Industry under-prepared for SuperStream: Bravura

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
... Financial Advice (FoFA) and MySuper, the need to retain clients, stemming the loss of business to self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs). "The recent volume of super reforms has led to funds and administrators implementing seemingly stop-gap solutions ...

CFS first retail fund to win MySuper approval

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
... members near retirement." The Government introduced MySuper as part of its Stronger Super package in a bid to provide superannuation members with a new low cost and simple superannuation product that replaces existing default funds.

State Super FS appoints Mercer new asset consultant

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
State Super Financial Services (SSFS) has appointed Mercer as their new asset consultant. Mercer will replace former asset consultant Russell Investments and will work with the fund to enhance investment performance, deliver innovation through its diversified ...

Abbott super cut to affect low income Australians: Shorten

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
... Australians will be denied up to $500 each year under opposition leader Tony Abbott's plan to cut the Low Income Superannuation Contribution (LISC), minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Bill Shorten said. According to figures Shorten released ...