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Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... its plans for monetary policy. "We started off on the right foot and we didn't get anything negative from the Fed," said Michael James, managing director for equity trading at Wedbush Securities. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets closed higher as ...

Minimum $200k SMSF balance "completely incorrect"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... self-managed super funds (SMSFs) should hold a minimum balance of $200,000. Townsends Law special counsel on superannuation Michael Hallinan said ASIC's comments - included in the regulator's new guidance papers on SMSF advice - were "completely incorrect ...

ASFA appoints independent chair

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... Minto was appointed chair in November 2013, and has been an ASFA Director since November 2009. He will be replaced by Dr Michael Easson from 31 July. Easson is currently chair of Icon Water, ActewAGL and EG Funds Management. He was a former non-executive ...

Findex life insurance goes commission-free

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... coming months once negotiations are complete with other life insurance companies," said Findex adviser services chief Michael Wilkins. Wilkins added that the new commission-free model will result in lower costs to clients - he pointed to savings of up ...

American IRAs not super funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... scheme payment in the nature of super upon retirement or death. Special counsel at Townsends Business & Corporate Lawyers, Michael Hallinan, said the decision means any payment from an IRA will have no special tax treatment in Australia under Division ...

Industry funds embrace board independence

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015
... what skills we need to add; if we lose two, we will decide which skills we lose." According to VicSuper chief executive Michael Dundon, the draft legislation will bring more significant changes to VicSuper's board (as it currently has eight directors ...

Hyperion eyes global equities

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
... really need to understand the international markets." He said that the Hyperion team has increased to seven people and that Michael Mewburn, formerly an analyst at Certitude Global Investments, has recently joined the firm as a dealer and analyst.

Australian shares up on ease over Greece

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... as investors realised Greece's troubles were of little consequence for Australia, Phillip Capital senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said. "With the equanimity from European markets, not just from yesterday but also in the past couple of weeks ...

ACT government fund appoints First State Super

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... assessment. "This outcome gives a very strong endorsement of First State Super in the marketplace," the fund's chief executive Michael Dwyer said. He added that First State Super will be the ACT Government's default fund for another decade. "Across the ...

Stirred but not shaken

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... constituency and explain to my people in my constituency why we are willing to lend more than 3 billion Euros to Cyprus," Michael Fuchs, deputy parliamentary leader of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party, said in an interview with BBC Radio 4 today. ...