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Planners should already be fiduciaries

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
... Report and the focus shifts to the core question of what fiduciary responsibility means for advisers, a leading superannuation author says advisers accepting commissions as payments are already breaching these obligations. Trish Power, bestselling author ...

ESI Super pumps up insurance

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
... the initial two years payments until members reach age 65. Founded in 1995, ESI Super is a $2.7 billion industry superannuation fund providing complete retirement planning solutions to members. While it continues to serve employees of the energy industry ...

CPRS chaos poses big risks for fin services

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
... likely to be presented to Parliament next year on issues such as financial planner fiduciary responsibilities, superannuation tax concessions and the role of regulation, the ramifications could be far reaching. Raising the stakes is Liberal Party Leader ...

Clearing house model to be multi competitive: Tsy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
Treasury's release of draft legislation for the superannuation clearing house signals that while the government appointed Medicare as the small business clearing house, it expects multiple clearing houses to be operating in the market. "[It will] allow ...

Improving admin could stop fraudsters: SPAA

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2009
... body. Andrea Slattery, chief executive at the SMSF Professionals Association of Australia (SPAA), said while the superannuation administration system is robust, it could be improved to make it much harder for people to fraudulently rollover multiple ...

CSRF rebrands

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2009
The $3.2 billion Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund has changed its name and logo to Australian Catholic Superannuation & Retirement Fund, representing its Australia-wide membership. The name change of the fund, which had $3.18 billion at the ...

VISSF appoints mandate with State Trustees

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2009
The Victorian Independent Schools Superannuation Fund has appointed State Trustees Limited to provide financial planning services to its members. VISSF chose Victoria-based State Trustees after a thorough evaluation process, noted a statement from the ...

Retirement savings only last a few years

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... they finish working and are in retirement," said Fiona Reynolds, chief executive of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees. Meanwhile ASFA has called for the government to scrap the $450 a month minimum threshold for Superannuation Guarantee ...

QIC wins $100m from QSuper

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... to package up fixed income alpha streams into an investment vehicle with a strong track record." QSuper is the superannuation fund for current and former Queensland Government and related entity workers and their spouses with more than 520,000 members ...

AFA calls for more consultation on education

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... our GenXt program have degrees." This comes after Chris Bowen, minister for human services, financial services, superannuation and corporate law, called for high quality financial advice. "Adviser education is an extremely important ingredient in providing ...