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High fees deter accountants from using platforms for SMSFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... platforms are appropriate for SMSFs, the most popular answer was consolidated reporting (49%), followed by access to wholesale funds and rates (44%), easier admin (44%) and ease of reporting (42%). Advisers who said that an investment platform is most ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... from the ECB and the BOJ (Bank of Japan)," Mr Shamu said. "Overall, it seems the global economy are hoping for some cheap funds from central banks to keep things going." Telstra was the largest company to go ex-dividend on Wednesday and shed 17 cents ...

AustralianSuper names new deputy chair

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... team to continue delivering high returns to members and promoting the benefits of not-for-profit industrial superannuation funds to all Australian workers."

Give MySuper time to work, says AIST

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... System Inquiry (FSI) interim report, AIST said wholesale structural changes to deal with the comparatively high fees super funds charge would be premature. AIST chief executive Tom Garcia said: "As a nation, we have invested huge amounts of time and ...

Profit up and new products for ClearView

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... contributed $5.9 million (down from $6.6 million) while the financial advice division contributed $3.5 million (up from $800,000). Funds under management (FUM) in ClearView products increased 8% over the year to $1.66 billion as at 30 June 2014. Net ...

MDAs allow small players to act as large instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... storm" of technology improvements and the global financial crisis, which damaged investors' faith in traditional managed funds. "The irony is that managed fund unit pricing errors years ago triggered the development of more transparent structures, which ...

ASFA asks FSI for clear targets to measure super success

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has called on the Murray Inquiry to set clear objectives against which the success of superannuation's role in reducing the Age Pension burden on public coffers can be measured. In its latest ...

SPAA defends SMSF tax rules

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
... claim that SMSFs do not pay enough tax misses the wider picture. "There is no difference in the way APRA-regulated super funds and SMSFs are being taxed," she told Financial Standard. "It's just that SMSFs are more transparent." When asked whether she ...

NAB launches super clearing house

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
... launched a new superannuation clearing house to enable employers to make superannuation contributions to multiple employee funds and self-managed funds. NAB Super Pay also ensures employers are compliant with the Federal Government's SuperStream regulations ...

Departing van Eyk execs to assist with handover

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
... unaffected by the changes." The reorganisation of the asset consulting team follows the suspension of four van Eyk Blueprint funds by responsible entity Macquarie in response to an underlying manager, Artefact Partners, investing in a portfolio that ...