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OPINION: Super is Murray's big rock

ANDREW BRAGG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015
... against the latest crazy idea. Secondly, competitive tensions need to increase. Superannuation fees are inflated due to little understood laws that prevent the best and cheapest product from serving Australians. How can it be that hundreds of thousands ...

FIIG arranges $40m Sunland bond issue

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2015
... partner," FIIG chief executive Mark Paton said, adding that the process for quality companies issuing a bond could take as little as six to eight weeks to complete from start to finish. Sunland Group managing director, Sahba Abedian, said the note issue ...

Australia back on the radar for international capital

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
... moving up the risk curve adding stocks that have cheapened in recent months such as the banks. Moffitt has also added a little credit risk to his portfolios.

The power of saying no to difficult advice clients

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... difficult clients saps away at your business, your time and your opportunities. So I learned to start saying that tiny little two-letter word I'd been practicing from the earliest age," she said. Although Sam and Ange's finances were "seductive," McCallum ...

Not this year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... outlook."...and inflation: "...the latest survey indicated that input price inflation remained relatively muted and was little-changed from September's seven-month low." These are the data the Fed's looking at right here right now. Data that shows, unless ...

Vision Super and Financial Synergy implement new admin platform

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2015
... information in this day and age. "Other funds outsource their administration work to third parties, in some cases giving them little say over how internal processing is performed. Equally important, the new platform is known to have a lower cost of ownership ...

Deloitte super plan could save budget $6bn

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2015
... more than the pension but "the costs are still pretty big." "If our super concessions cost lots but achieve relatively little, then Australians are spending a fortune on "stability and trust" in super settings while actually achieving neither. Governments ...

PROFILE: SuperBPO chief executive Michael Houlihan

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... recent transition to SuperStream is one example but the end result will be beneficial industry-wide. "SuperStream is a little bit messy at the moment but give it five or six months and we'll be seeing straight through processing. From our staff point-of-view ...

Property spruiker banned for providing unlawful advice

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... to establish SMSFs. "Investors were influenced to make important decisions concerning their superannuation strategy with little or no genuine consideration of whether the decision took proper account of their individual financial circumstances. Some ...

FPA helps advisers with life insurance

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
... applied by all FPA members. "The recent discussions on the life insurance reforms have largely focused on remuneration, with little emphasis on the consumer and the quality of the actual life insurance advice provided to them," Rantall said. "The quality ...