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Bookmakers Super adds conservative option

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2008
The Bookmakers Superannuation Fund (BSF) has signed investment and superannuation advisory firm Joseph Palmer & Sons to offer a new conservative investment option, in response to this year's share market volatility. According to Malcolm Palmer, managing ...

Life insurance tax should be abolished: IFSA

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2008
... million by way of this stamp duty, a value that could treble by this year. "We haven't done estimates for 2008 but you would be safe to say it would be $50-70 million a year on a national basis." Andrew McKee, Zurich Australia head of life risk, said ...

AMP gives free advice to Salvos

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2008
... Service is a confidential service for female victims of domestic violence living in the North Shore. The service provides safe accommodation and education on domestic violence.

Markets down, national happiness in positive territory

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2008
Despite the increasing focus on economics and financial markets, Australians don't seem much happier now than they were before, reveals the latest Australian Unity Wellbeing Report. The index, which has been operating since 2001, measures the "subjective ...

Don't strangle sovereign funds: OECD

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has warned countries against enforcing greater foreign investment restrictions because it could negatively affect domestic economic growth. To address national security issues such as ...

Zurich's timely insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2008
Zurich is looking to up its stake in the life risk insurance playing field as it launches "Select Term" insurance, which breaks insurance in manageable chunks of 5,10 and 15 years. Zurich claims its Select Term product is created to "to provide certainty ...

Superfund Group pans for Australian gold

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
Global managed futures fund specialist, Superfund Group, is extending its operations down under to tap into the local demand for alternative investments and commodities. "It could not be better timing for us to expand our product offering to Australia ...

Sherry overhauls award system

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
The Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law Nick Sherry is looking to modernise the country's award system, including superannuation, to boost Australians' financial safety nets. "The government believes workers should be protected in the workplace ...

Governance before crisis

Corporate governance often comes into the spotlight following a crisis - a trap that super fund trustees should avoid at all costs, says a corporate governance expert. Speaking at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) in Brisbane yesterday ...

Super structure needs fixing

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2008
Industry Super Network executive director David Whiteley said any decision the Government takes in the upcoming May budget to increase superannuation contributions needs to be grounded in structural reforms to increase the "efficiency and fairness" ...