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MySuper dashboards, ASIC warns trustees

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
... regulatory review of MySuper product dashboards, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued extra guidance to superannuation trustees about how they need to be handled. The guidance update focuses on how the dashboards are ...

Platforms pushed by utility as well as technology

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
... out?" seminar that was arranged by the Australian Centre for Financial Studies, Jeroen Buwalda, Partner at EY, said adding extra investment choices is only part of what constitutes modern platforms now. "Cloud technology has been around for a long while ...

Advisers turn budget into opportunity to engage

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... high income earners, a new tax just for them; for pensioners; new eligibility rules and for the rest of us, a little bit of extra super." Beames and Associates director David Rae also recorded a video and said that the new tax on high income earners ...

Delay in SG rise 'disappointing', says industry

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
The government will delay the staggered increase of the superannuation guarantee (SG) to 12% for an extra year, it has revealed in the 2014/15 budget. On 1 July 2014, the SG will go up to 9.5% and will remain at that level until 2018, when it will rise ...

Budget speech 2014 -15

... And our $1 billion National Stronger Regions Fund, together with $200 million of new Black Spot funding, and $350 million extra for Roads to Recovery will deliver jobs and better roads across regional and rural Australia. But these projects will do more ...

SuperStream savings 'nowhere near' estimates

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
SuperStream is not delivering the member value for money that was its intended result in the Cooper Review, according to VicSuper head of employer relations Dean Pearce. Pearce said that, in order to differentiate itself in the employer market, VicSuper ...

Fiducian acquisition adds $66 million in FUA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
Fiducian Group has acquired a financial planning business that will add $66 million to its funds under advice. The listed company did not disclose the names of financial planners or dealer groups joining or selling their businesses to Fiducian. The ...

Legal action on cards as FWC denies FSC requests

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has rejected the Financial Services Council's (FSC) call for a hearing on the validity of the expert panel as well as its request for a one week extension on MySuper applications. In response to this decision, the FSC ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
The Australian market looks set to follow Wall Street's lead and open higher as investors absorb new sanctions on Russia over Ukraine. At 0645 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was up 21 points at 5,554.0. Locally, no major ...

Winton appoints Platinum exec to head Sydney office

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
UK fund manager Winton Capital has recruited Andrew Grimes from Platinum Asset Management to head up its recently opened Sydney office. Grimes was an institutional investment specialist with the $23 billion global equities manager for more than 5 years. ...