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Admins team up for rollover revolution

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2010
Three of the country's biggest administrators - AAS, Pillar Administration and Superpartners - are joining forces to set up a standard of protocols for fund rollovers. In a move in line with the Government's initiative to use Medicare as a small business ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2010
The Australian market has received flat to positive leads from overseas markets overnight, with Wall Street edging into positive territory in late afternoon trade, and precious and base metals higher, although oil was marginally virtually flat. At 0825 ...

New MD as Wilson HTM restructures

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
Wilson HTM Investment Group has ushered David Groth in as its new chief executive as the firm restructures its strategic relationship with Deutsche Bank. Groth's appointment follows the resignation of Garry Lowrey as managing director. According to ...

AustralianSuper revamps retirement investment path

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
AustralianSuper is introducing a new age-based default for pension members and implementing a different path for those moving from accumulation to pension phase. The super fund conducted a review of the risk and benefits of its balanced option, which ...

J.P. Morgan hires 50 for custody business

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
J.P. Morgan's custody business has hired 50 executives across taxation, business analytics and client servicing in the past four months to cope with client demand. Bryan Gray, managing director of sales & client relationship management at J.P. Morgan ...

AMIST backs after-tax benchmarking

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
AMIST Super has become the first super fund to adopt the FTSE ASFA Australia after-tax benchmarks for its Australian equities managers. John Livanas, chief executive at AMIST Super, which has more than $280 million in invested in Australian equities ...

ANZ appoints Hogan as chief economist

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
ANZ has appointed Warren Hogan as chief economist for Australia. Hogan joined ANZ in 2005 and has been acting chief economist since Saul Eslake left in August last year. He will report to acting managing director global markets, Rob O'Callaghan. Warren ...

No cane toad approach to SMSF shake-up

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
As the countdown begins to the release of the Cooper Review's recommendations on SMSFs, the Review's chair Jeremy Cooper said they won't be adopting a 'cane toad' solution to the industry's flaws. Speaking at the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia ...

Limited advice from accountants face hurdles

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
Tony D'Aloisio, chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), said SPAA's proposal advocating for accountants to be able to provide limited structural advice on superannuation could be impractical. Speaking yesterday at the Self ...

Telstra appoints property and Aussie eq heads

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
... Australia and County Investment Management. Lee comes to Telstra Super after spending 3 years with the Juilliard Group as COO. In his time there, Lee built the property team and established business tools for greater oversight, reporting and forecasting ...