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Conflict of interest still key issue: ASIC shadow shop

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
... what's become the passive income problem." According to Deen Sanders, chief professional officer, Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA), the FOFA legislation as it stands represents a missed opportunity, and that while the FPA shared ASIC's ...

New cost estimates see MySuper equal SuperStream

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
... implementing MySuper will equal the costs of SuperStream, according to estimates delivered in a joint Ernst & Young and Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) executive survey. Both MySuper and SuperStream are expected to attract just ...

Managed funds have a place in SMSFs: Select

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
... looking for absolute return, that funds are a good idea. Speaking at the Self Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia yesterday, Dominic McCormick, Chief Investment Officer at Select said managed funds had failed to appeal due to issues ...

Cavendish MD named SPAA chair

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
... managing director for SMSF administrator, Cavendish Superannuation. The Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) announced the appointment of Hamilton today. The association's national conference is currently underway in ...

SPAA SMSF award winners announced

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
The Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia has announced the winners of its 2011 awards series at its national conference held in Sydney. The Chairman's award for most outstanding contribution by a member to SPAA and the SMSF ...

SMSFs focus on risk reduction: report

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
The Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals Association of Australia (SPAA) and Russell Investments today launched the second annual SMSF report which revealed a focus among trustees on risk reduction and increased interest in SMSFs among a younger demographic. ...

Disclosure regulations unnecessary: FIRSTSUPER

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... would not resist the move but that a cost-benefit analysis was key while Pauline Vamos, chief executive of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia, said disclosure was not the panacea everybody thought it would be. "It must be relevant ...

ASIC to take hard line on deliberately misleading ads

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... scope of financial advice, can create unrealistic expectations that lead to poor financial decisions," Kell told an Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) lunch in Sydney. Kell said the commission had already succeeded in removing some ...

New data questions SMSF inflows

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... results with $14 billion in 2010. Andrea Slattery, chief executive of the Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) said other figures paint a different picture. "All current data is showing that there has been a steady growth. ...

Volatility is MIA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012
... investors have a sunnier disposition. You can feel it in the air. But for empirical evidence, there's the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) Sentiment Survey - it "measures the percentage of individual investors who are bullish, bearish ...