Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 11791 - 11800 of 18138 results for "superannuation"

Aspen wins Telstra Super deal

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
Telstra Super has made a debt and equity investment in a joint venture property deal with Aspen Group for the development of the Australian Tax Office building in Adelaide. Telstra paid $34 million for a 50% interest in the development with Aspen holding ...

Older people seek more financial advice

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011
... financial advice and are far more likely to use a planner than those under age 34, or women, latest figures show. The Superannuation and Wealth Management in Australia report, released last week by Roy Morgan Research, also surveyed respondents about ...

Coalition, small business reject super clearing house model

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011
A member of the Stronger Super Peak Consultative Group has rejected the Superannuation Clearing House model and has called for employers to be taken out of the superannuation payment process altogether. Superannuation payments should be deducted by ...

BTIM extends global presence with $10bn manager buy

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2011
... Gavin Rochussen, said there was no product overlap and would be no disruption to either business. "Access to the superannuation industry was particularly attractive to us with the products we have," he said. BTIM said that the acquisition is expected ...

Bigger super funds may not be cheaper for members

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2011
... discover the real reasons why the super industry is consolidating, see the upcoming issue of FS Super: the Journal of Superannuation.

ASFA: carbon tax implications on super rebates

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
... tax has super association support, but questions have been raised in a consultation paper from the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) In line with the introduction of the carbon tax, the Federal Government proposed the low income ...

Super fund director taken to court for fees

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
An industry superannuation fund director and union boss is being taken to court for the board fees he earned, by another state secretary of his union. Dean Mighell, Victorian secretary of the Electrical Trades Union (ETU), lodged a statement of claim ...

AMP scales advice for affordability

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
... Commission (ASIC). The new model will provide six different categories for people to receive specific advice including superannuation, investment property and lifestyle change. Scott Machin, director of advice, AMP, told Financial Standard that investor ...

Super funds talk debt ructions and increasing pensions

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
Global sovereign debt woes and retired member numbers were hot topics for superannuation fund chief investment officers at the 17th Annual Rainmaker Sales and Marketing Symposium yesterday. During lively discussions at the institutional investor round ...

ESG failings impacting super investments

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure is not being taken seriously enough, said the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), and super funds are noticing. Over half of ASX200 companies fail to provide enough ESG disclosure ...