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SMSF collectable insurance poses compliance risks

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
Collectable assets held within a self-managed super fund (SMSF) are about to cause compliance problems for trustees failing to procure appropriate insurance, one service provider has warned. All new SMSF investments in art and collectables made on or ...

Super fees are falling but only just

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... is more about unbundling advice costs in selected new funds than it is about a general lowering of total retail superannuation prices," noted the report. Rainmaker said the headline result is that super fund fees overall, weighted by segment FUM, have ...

Politics around LISC heats up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
The politics around around superannuation tax expenditures looks set to heat up with Superannuation Minister Bill Shorten last week saying he will defend low income tax benefits and The Australia Institute saying the top end of town should be targeted ...

Shorten defends low-income super contribution

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... spokesman Joe Hockey said earlier this week that the Coalition was not planning any changes "of any dramatic nature" to superannuation taxes or imposts other than carbon and mining taxes.

More innovation needed on 'demand side' infra opps: ASFA

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... pieces of the puzzle fall into place to result in a work practice shift? The point, as Noble says is: "Because superannuation funds are diversified investors that invest in assets across the real economy, there can be more than one way to 'skin the cat' ...

AustSafe appoints head of investments

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012

Treasury seeks to boost APRA powers

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... Treasury would see the prudential regulator awarded pre-emptive powers to remove trustees, directors or officers of a superannuation fund where a breach of law was anticipated. The move was part of a broad-reaching consultation paper released yesterday ...

Medcraft calls for international super benchmarking

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... engage more with their asset allocation and perhaps one of the things we have suggested would be that, on their superannuation statements, their asset allocation is disclosed but perhaps that it is benchmarked against some international standard so Australians ...

Marathon assets under review

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
At least $1.13 billion of superannuation assets are under review ahead of the imminent retirement of Jeremy Hosking, one of the three founders of Marathon Asset Management, in December. The UK-based fund manager, which has secured global equity portfolio ...

ISN blasts FSC's independence policy

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... released last month by the representative body provided mandatory guidelines that said a majority of directors on superannuation trustee boards must be independent. The draft policy, which will become mandatory for FSC members after 1 July 2014, provided ...