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Accounting bodies launch SMSF learning tool

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... National Institute of Accountants to develop a free online training tool for SMSF trustees. The tool, Self Managed Superannuation Fund Trustee Education Program, is a public interest initiative of the Joint Accounting Bodies (which represents all three ...

NSW man sentenced for early super release

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... sentenced to two years imprisonment, to be released after eight months, for unlawfully permitting early access to superannuation benefits. He was trustee of the fund at the time of the offence. His release is conditional upon entering a $1,000 security ...

MetLife Australia names new chief

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... does not have operations in Australia. Set up in 2005, the local operations provide group life insurance through superannuation and employee groups and individual life insurance products through affinity partners.

Macquarie launches lifetime income product

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... "Although Australia has led the world in developing a mandatory defined contribution retirement savings system - superannuation - we trail many other markets including the US and the UK in providing longevity risk protection products. "The Macquarie ...

NZ Super buys Shell assets

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
A consortium including the New Zealand Superannuation Fund has bought the Royal Dutch Shell's New Zealand distribution business assets for more than $540 million. The deal includes all Shell's "downstream assets", which include the business' retail ...

BOQ buys St Andrews insurance

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... annual gross written premium of $75 million and approximately 165,000 policyholders. St Andrew's' investments, superannuation, retirement income and financial planning businesses, which have been integrated into the Commonwealth Bank following its purchase ...

Super funds gain merger loss relief

GOVERNMENT RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
The government is changing legislation that will provide loss relief for superannuation funds that merge. The amendments are designed to remove tax impediments to mergers between super funds. The changes mean eligible super funds can roll over capital ...

IFSA blasts latest APRA league tables

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
... return on assets metrics as misleading, confusing and irrelevant for most members. "IFSA has rejected the APRA superannuation fund data... and its use in superannuation comparisons," they said in a statement. "APRA has admitted that whole of fund data ...

Outback stake on Westscheme radar

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
Western Australia-based Westscheme has become a minority shareholder of RM Williams Agricultural Holdings after one of the fund's investments folded into the company. Howard Rosario, chief executive of the $2.9 billion Westscheme became a shareholder ...

Not-for-profits still beat retail: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
... option weightings are artificially low, however, because some retail funds combine their workplace and personal superannuation products into single combined legal entities for regulatory purposes. While APRA acknowledges the whole of fund methodology ...