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AMP targets youth with new campaign

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
AMP and Nova FM have launched a new competition offering its super consolidation service with the chance to win a personal assistant for two days or a $15,000 travel voucher in a bid to attract the youth market to super. Running from August 12 to September ...

Count Financial powers ahead with large profit, juicy dividend

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
Financial planning group Count Financial has issued earnings guidance showing profits more than doubled, thanks to the float of professional services firm Countplus in December. Count Financial said its net profit after tax for the 2010-11 financial ...

Delaney retires amid MTAA board restructure

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
Michael Delaney is to step down as chief executive officer of MTAA Super in November as part of a major board restructure at the fund. A successor for Delaney, who has been in charge of MTAA since its inception in 1989, will be found later this year ...

Social media insurance wanted for share price protection

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
The potential negative of impact social media on a company's share price has lead to the development of social media insurance protection products, but Australian boards still want more access online. Under discussion at the Association of Chartered ...

Gold, gold, gold, but not to Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... shares in gold miners are not the same as investing in the asset itself," he said. Moodley said the 24% appreciation of the AUD over the past year has taken the luster of gold. In USD terms the price has jumped 33% over the year but in AUD terms the ...

Other play factors

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
What's the final deal going to be? Will they, won't they? Sorry Virginia, not talking about the grand theatrics that is the US debt ceiling negotiations this time. Today, I refer these questions to our very own Reserve Bank of the Advance Australia ...

Super software given extra accounting grunt

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
Self-managed super fund accounting software Class Super has been enhanced with a raft of new features through a strategic partnership with a subsidiary of one of the world's biggest providers of tax, accounting and audit software. Class Financial, developer ...

A minute to midnight sees super funds merge

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
What difference can a midnight minute make to a merger? Do you combine your super funds at 12.01am on July 1? Or 11.59pm on June 30? Those vital 60 seconds were pondered during an afternoon talk by Graeme Russell, chief executive officer of First Super ...

UK tech firm gives spine to newly competitive Australian market

FIDESSA AND ASX RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2011
UK-based technology provider Fidessa will provide the backbone for a new multi-market smart-order routing trading application for the Australian market in a deal announced today. The firm will provide the software and technology infrastructure for a ...

Class Super adds actuarial SMSF service

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
Self managed super fund administration provider Class Super is using cloud computing to offer automated actuarial certificate data transfers for SMSF clients. Class Super, developed by Class Financial Systems, said it will provide real time access to ...