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AMP/AXA promises best of both worlds

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... the new product rollout will offer more options to more advisers, said Meller. The breakdown: Retail investments, superannuation and retirement markets - AMP will retain both AXA North and AMP Flexible Super offers. The North platform will be used by ...

Planners wrapped with super app

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
Financial planners are responding in force to a free superannuation and retirement app available at itunes, with the promise of more features to come. The "working retirement calculator" app, developed by Rice Warner, is part of a suite of superannuation ...

CFS builds in corporate super

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... CFS head of super, product and Investment services. "Employers now have the opportunity to grow the size of their superannuation plan as well as increase the funds under management because terminating employees and their spouses can stay within their ...

Deadline tonight for Trio levy submissions

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
Time runs out today for superannuation funds to have their say on regulations governing the levy to raise $55 million in compensation for victims of the Trio Capital fraud. With the impost worked out as a percentage of funds under management and capped ...

Super problems to short-change retirees

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
Deep problems in the superannuation system meant Australians may not have enough money to provide for their retirement despite half-million dollar balances, an industry expert said today. In his keynote speech at the Morningstar Investment Conference ...

Advisers not ready for super changes

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
Financial planners are unprepared for a superannuation system that is rapidly changing with the biggest problems not of their making, Jeremy Cooper said today. Cooper, the former head of the Superannuation System Review, told a packed ballroom of industry ...

ASIC draft moves FEX closer to reality

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... progressing FEX's application and will play an integral role in advising the minister for financial services and superannuation on the final market integrity rules for the FEX market if the licence is granted. "Consultation Paper...proposes market integrity ...

Industry funds primed for more planning deals

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
Industry funds are expected to follow AustralianSuper's lead in forming closer alliances with financial planners, as they look to provide advice to more members. News that the $37 billion AustralianSuper will partner with six financial planning groups ...

Advisers launch FOFA attack

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... hated measures. The two key points adviser groups want scrapped are the ban on commissions from risk insurance in superannuation funds and the biennial opt-in requirement. The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has led the charge by preparing an ...

REST announces formal name change

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
REST Superannuation has announced that it has officially changed its name to REST Industry Super. The name change of Australia's largest industry super fund by membership, with 1.9 million members, is designed to highlight the super funds industry expertise ...