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ASIC targets SMSF confidence tricksters

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
... Addressing a packed room at the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, ASIC commissioner Peter Kell opened the annual CPA Australia SMSF conference and expo by outlining the importance of safe-guarding SMSFs. "I urge you all to alert the regulator to any shark advice ...

Brogden reaffirms campaign warning to politicians

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2013
... government's proposed changes to the retirement tax regime, but warns future governments that it may return. At a press conference in Sydney on Friday, Brogden welcomed many of the changes announced by Treasurer Wayne Swan and superannuation minister ...

Super changes ease political and financial uncertainty

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
... controversial of which capped tax exemption on assets supporting earnings of more than $100,000 a year, at a press conference in Canberra this morning. ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos said the changes would help stop the "panic in the community" and ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
... those two markets had lost 0.87 per cent and 1.32 per cent, respectively. In Frankfurt, the head of the ECB told a news conference: "Weak economic activity has extended into the early part of the year and a gradual recovery is projected for the second ...

Super will improve under Labor: Shorten

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
... through this period, we'll go about putting together reforms methodically and in a clear minded way," he said at press conference in Canberra. The roundtable discussion built on the superannuation reforms announced by the Gillard Government, which include ...

South Africa leads foreign investment in the continent

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... $6.4 billion in 2012. The figures came from the 'Global Investment Trends Monitor' report issued by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTD). The report was published ahead of the fifth Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa ...

I was there!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... that got less than a paragraph of bother was the sharp and bigger-than-expected drop in US consumer sentiment. The Conference Board's consumer confidence index decreased to 59.7 in March against 68 in February and expectations for a dip to 67.5. Good ...

Consumer confidence in super is key: Shorten

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
... daughters, whose hard working wages are compulsorily deferred to provide for their retirement security," Shorten said at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) held in Brisbane last week. "Australians want the process of superannuation policy-making ...

Superannuation to wield $6tr muscle by 2030

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
... superannuation industry in 2030 will be bigger, more globalised and more sophisticated than it is today, panelists at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) said when asked about how superannuation will look like in 17 years. "The main issue ...

Super for all shapes and sizes: QSuper

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
... based on age groups to provide them with a more personalised super offering. QSuper CEO Rosemary Vilgan spoke at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) last week and said that "the one-size-fits-all strategy is not the way of the future ...