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Insurance made easier for associations and clubs

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2007
... organisations or not-for-profit associations, ASIC stated. ASIC is also consulting with the industry on proposals for technical relief for insurers from the product disclosure statement provisions, when a person to be covered under a group insurance ...

Midwinter appoints ex-Advance head of technical

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2007
Financial planning software provider Midwinter Financial Services has appointed the former head of technical services at Advance Asset Management as their new general manager of strategy and technical services. Matthew Esler left Advance last year and ...

Simpler super needs complex planning

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2007
... flowing from last year's Federal Budget had better get busy or they might miss the opportunities. Kate Anderson, head of technical services at Mariner Financial services, said, "There's a lot of work to do between now and 1 July to amalgamate super accounts ...

Make retirement day count: Westpac FP

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2007
... Westpac Financial Planning. With the new super changes being introduced this year, Westpac Financial Planning's head of technical services, Aman Ramrakha, said anyone nearing 60 or planning to retire soon should do their sums to ensure they weren't missing ...

New chairman for SPAA

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2007
... The board of the Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) has announced SuperConcepts technical manager, Graeme Colley, as the new chairman. Current chairman Peter Hogan will remain with SPAA as vice chair. Colley, technical ...

Super funds could offer transaction banking

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2007
... there are no regulatory reasons from his perspective standing in the way of a super fund becoming a member of CECS, just technical issues and a tough value proposition. "If you are a card issuer or have some other valid reason for wanting access, there ...

In-specie transfers up 300 per cent: Multiport

... share portfolios being rolled into SMSFs has grown dramatically since Christmas," said Philip La Greca, the group's technical services director. "We're getting at least one enquiry a week on how people can do this." He said the transfers will probably ...

Salary sacrifice now three times more powerful

... month as a salary sacrifice, that's already $12,000 a year, which goes over this [$9,000] limit," said Andrew Lawless, technical manager at MLC. But under the government's simpler super proposal, coming into effect in July this year, the maximum deductible ...

Macq property gears up for SMSFs

... new regional NSW/ACT distribution manager. Regan has held key positions within distribution, project management and technical services at MLC/Lend Lease. Four months ago, MDP also recruited two business development managers (BDMs). The group's general ...

A whole new world of indexes: Russell

... invest in the best stocks from around the world with less emphasis on company size or country of origin," he said. On the technical side, the indexes were designed to factor in float-adjusted market capitalisation, reconstitution and multi-factor style ...