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Divorcing super

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
Divorce battle over self-managed super fund assets and art ownership within SMSFs raises tricky questions over what happens when only one of the splitting couple is a fund trustee. Many Australian couples are often unaware of the effect divorce can ...

A "race to the bottom" in currencies

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010
The world's major central banks are in danger of setting off a mercantilist race to the bottom as they attempt to gain competitiveness through artificial currency debasement, analysts say. After six years of abstinence, the Japanese Ministry of Finance ...

MLC Insurance on the hunt for new EGM

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
MLC Insurance has an opening for the top job after Andrew Hagger assumes the new role of corporate affairs and marketing executive for National Australia Bank. This follows news that Hagger moves to corporate affairs while Andrew Howard, general manager ...

More governance needed on remuneration

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
Super funds can do more to exert their influence on remuneration policies after new research suggests CEO pay packages barely changed despite the GFC. The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) in its CEO Pay in the Top 100 Companies ...

Praemium SMARTwrap signs AFS

NEWS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
Technology provider Praemium announced in a statement to the ASX today that its SMARTwrap platform has won its first approval from a national dealer group - Australian Financial Services group (AFS), barely a month after launching. Based on Praemium's ...

NGS Super considers Shariah-compliant option

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
NGS Super is looking to launch a Shariah-compliant investment option based on the feedback from the Islamic members of the fund. Chief executive Anthony Rodwell-Ball told the audience at yesterday's Rainmaker Marketing Symposium that the fund is working ...

Hung

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
By now many of you, fellow Australians, would have had enough of the commentaries, in-depth analyses, finger-pointing, spins, recriminations, soul searching, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera that preceded and followed last Saturday's Australian elections. ...

More workshops to prep for fee-for-service

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2010
From only a fraction of financial planning groups offering advice through fee-for-service five years ago, the advice model has now gone mainstream - and there are workshops a-plenty for those who are still mulling over their options. Seven years ago ...

Former planner taps need for online education

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2010
A former Securitor financial planner has started a new online financial planning educational website service that - barely three months since going live with their new Financial Knowledge Centre - has already caught the interest of various dealer groups ...

AMP Capital opens NY office

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2010
AMP Capital Investors hopes to service its clients' increasing appetite for global mandates with the opening of a new North American Infrastructure office - making high profile recruitments to get things underway. "AMP Capital is one of the most experienced ...