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Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... Athens and Stuart Holland of the Department of Economics at the University of Coimbra in Portugal - titled "A Modest Proposal for Overcoming the Euro Crisis". Read it here: http://varoufakis.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/a-modest-proposal-version-2-1-for-the-levy-institute-pdf.pdf ...

Labor moves to justify super existence

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... figure on the political battleground. In defence of on-going criticism from the opposition party on the government's proposal to take the superannuation guarantee from 9 to 12%, Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Bill Shorten set out ...

Super heavyweights join forces

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
Superannuation associations are joining forces to send the Treasury a proposal to remove plans to introduce the proposed $500,000 balance threshold for individuals over age 50. Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), Self-managed Super ...

Australian Unity possible merger

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
... services offered by Big Sky and strengthen Australian Unity's service offerings, including financial services. Any formal proposal the committee puts forward is subject to review and approval by respective Boards, regulators and the members of Big Sky ...

IOOF moves for 100pc DKN shares

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
... said the relatively illiquid stock was in line with IOOF's growth strategy. The unsolicited, indicative, non-binding proposal made to DKN is for 75 cents per DKN share, which are currently trading on the ASX for 51 cents, and will be a scheme of arrangement ...

Dutch pension fund set for major reforms

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
The a,-800 billion Dutch pension system is set to place higher responsibility on the board of funds, while retirement age will rise, after the government closed on a reforms agreement. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said that the government, employers ...

PC to review how defaults appointed to Awards

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
The Productivity Commission will in 2012 review how default funds are appointed to Industrial Awards, said superannuation minister Bill Shorten, just one day after APRA released figures showing that the retail sector has again under performed the not-for-profit ...

LGS sees benefits in clean energy co-operation

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
The Government's proposals to reduce the risk of investing in clean energy and technology projects would be a welcome development given the current lack of viable opportunities in Australia. Earlier this week Treasurer Wayne Swan said that the government ...

Financial PDS' 'Shortened'

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
A new proposal by Finance Minister, Bill Shorten would provide a transition period of just over 12 months for those that aren't ready with their shortened PDS this year. Starting from 22 June 2012, PDS for all superannuation products and simple managed ...

Advisers to decide opt in: AusFIN

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2011
... Yet the Australian Financial Integrity Network (AusFIN), which supports the FOFA reforms, has now said that the opt in proposal is actually in the advisers' hands if they are willing to drop their on-going and asset based fees. "Opt in is essential to ...