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Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... Short of kicking the can further down the road, European authorities can't seem to agree on a workable solution to the problem. But even if they do, Greece is stuffed turkey. And if it is, there's a good chance Ireland, Portugal and Spain could be too. ...

Super fund leaps into life stage insurance

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... Australia's chief executive Damien Green earlier this year urged superannuation funds to solve Australia's underinsurance problem by communicating with members. Industry fund REST superannuation became one of the first to pursue an active strategy to ...

European authorities will blink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... by the cojones. Just looked at what happened in financial markets yesterday when news spread that the seven-hour Greek problem-solving marathon of European finance ministers produced a "too hard, we'll try again next month" conclusion. For the life of ...

Collectible nightmare just an SMSF bad dream

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
The self-managed super fund industry is over-reacting to draft regulations for collectibles, a sector training provider said today. The SMSF Academy, a specialist education body for the SMSF industry, said rule changes on collectables were a necessary ...

Policy war erupts over super clearing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
A war of words has broken out between the Coalition and the Government over which party offers small business the best method for processing superannuation payments. The Coalition, on Friday, issued a statement blasting the Government's Medicare superannuation ...

Super funds bidding to stem insurance shortfall

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... innovation, simplicity and slick claims processes. As funds look to play their part in tackling Australia's under-insurance problem, they are looking at increasing default cover, around $175,000 is now the industry fund average, and often adding income ...

Making the data fit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... the reserve requirement ratio for banks by 50 bps effective 20 June. Ochi ('no' in Greek as per google). Yep, the Greek problem has not gone away. Ten-year bonds issued by the government hit a record 17.46 per cent on news that agreement on another bailout ...

The seventh day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
... happening even if borrowing rates were set to zero without income-generating employment. Isn't this America's current problem? In Europe, the European Central Bank has just concluded their monetary gabfest and decided to keep interest rates at 1.25 per ...

Advisers to decide opt in: AusFIN

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2011
... hands if they are willing to drop their on-going and asset based fees. "Opt in is essential to prevent the passive income problem but if the industry wants to get rid of all on-going and asset based fees and charge upfront hourly rates like other professionals ...

MLC launches contrib. cap tool

... manage a client's contributions and avoid incurring excess contributions tax. Breaching contributions caps is a not a major problem in national systematic terms, but for those individuals impacted the tax penalties are disproportionate. According to ...