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Mercer expands with global chief investment role

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
Mercer continues its global expansion, creating the new role of global chief investment officer of mainstream assets to support its building $44 billion investment management business. Russell Clarke, Mercer's current chief investment officer for Asia ...

State Super CEO heads to Schroders

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... management is a people business and our strategy has always been to hire those with a strong investment background and broad technical capability across all areas of the business," said Greg Cooper, chief executive officer, Schroders. Schroders has also ...

SMSF body moves against super death tax

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... recent draft tax ruling affecting self-managed super funds that some have called a death tax by stealth. Peter Burgess, technical director of the Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association (SPAA), said the draft ruling had taken people by surprise. ...

Real estate may cause super tax headache

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... until death benefits begin to be paid, he said. Cavendish will discuss the matter in the next round of free adviser technical seminars along with pension matters and the new collectables legislation, it said in a release. The seminars will be held on ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... welcomed a major bi-partisan deal on tackling the public deficit drove Asia higher and set up Europe to build on Tuesday's technical rebound. A more positive lead from Germany on Thursday's crunch eurozone debt summit in Brussels also helped but the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... economic outlook, with fears the eurozone debt crisis will suck in Italy and Spain. The Hang Seng's gains were merely a technical rebound after they lost 4.7 per cent over the previous two days on the back of the European woes. The benchmark Hang Seng ...

SMSFs may be banned from buying shares off-market

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... consultative group. The Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) opposes it. Peter Burgess, technical director of SPAA, said the best practice guidelines were a better way to go, and that his organisation had suggested amendments ...

OnePath arms planners with post FOFA program

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... providing information updates and tools to help advice businesses implement fee for service. FutureReady features online technical papers, transition advice and guidance on service and charging models, supported by an Australian Institute of Financial ...

Long-term strategies pay off for investors

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
Long-term investment strategies offer better returns, while Australian equities are beating residential investment property as the best performing asset for the last 20 years. In the 13th Russell Investments/ASX Long-Term Investing Report, released ...

AMP looks to uni for future planners

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... with groups to submit a case study in response to a hypothetical client case study. The top five will then face a live technical quiz and live client role play in Sydney. The competition opens on 25 July with the winning team to receive a $5,000 AMP ...