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AFA: new lost super reforms a cash cow

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... possible lost benefits during the implementation process as well as dubbing the new measure a "cash cow". In the mid-year budget last week, the government announced that it raised the threshold whereby funds in inactive accounts are required to be transferred ...

Market wrap early AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... needed to stave off bankruptcy next month, while Athens released even worse growth and debt forecasts as part of its 2013 budget. Unemployment in the 17-nation eurozone hit also hit a new all-time high of 11.6 per cent in September. Nevertheless Spain's ...

Financial services outstrip mining: CommSec

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
The financial services and insurance industries contribute more to percentage growth in the Australian economy than mining and natural resources, according to CommSec's Craig James. Sensing that delegates at the annual Association of Financial Advisers ...

Govt to pay interest on lost Super funds

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
... corrosive impact of fees and inflation on funds left in forgotten super accounts with new measures announced in its mid-year Budget update. The government has raised the threshold below which funds in inactive accounts are required to be transferred ...

Too much ado over MYEFO

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
... to roost (oops, mixed metaphors again sowee), the broader picture is that the MYEFO has not deviated much from the May Budget. Yes, yes, the underlying cash surplus for 2012/13 is now forecast to be A$400 mil less than the A$1.5 bil predicted in the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
... and the NASDAQ backpedalled 2.19 per cent. Locally, Treasurer Wayne Swan on Monday released an update to the May 2012/13 budget in which he said the budget surplus for this financial year would be around $1 billion. He said while Australia's economic ...

UK becoming OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012

IQPC conference tackles operational risk

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
... Operational Risk and Compliance conference in early December is designed to help advisers assess risk, get the most from their budget and develop strategies to overcome the challenges posed by regulatory change. Recent scandals in the banking sector ...

Labor's $30bn secret super tax plan revealed

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... Australians that they have to pay $30 billion in increased super taxes to assist the Labor government to pay for its $120 billion budget black hole. Cormann said that instead of standing up for Australians doing the right thing by saving for their retirement ...

Platforms at 10 year low

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
Nervousness in underlying global investment markets, caused by ongoing European financial crises, plus massive US budget blowouts has contributed to net inflows into the platform market reaching their lowest levels in ten years, a recent report reveals. ...