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Trio compo draft regulations released

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... at a rate of $0.0001977 - or roughly 2c in every $100. The amount will be payable 28 days from the commencement of the ruling unless APRA determines a later day. The levy will be used to pay back more than 5000 investors who lost their money in the Trio ...

Game changer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... are calling for increasing the budget to 4 trillion yen ($48 billion) to 5 trillion yen to shore up the economy while the ruling DPJ wants it limited to 920 billion yen - has now become moot. Government and opposition now are one in increasing fiscal ...

Buy a toaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... mandate of maximum sustainable employment and price stability." Similarly, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard is not ruling out the Fed extending its bond purchase program. In other words, QE2 is here to stay. And if not enough, we'll roll out QE3. ...

Sentiment slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... attacks along the way proved few, short and shallow. Nothing seemed able shake market confidence. Until Libya's 42-year ruling strongman -- Moammar Qaddafi - or is it Gaddafi? Kadhafi? Gadhafi? Qadhafi? - entered stage left and began bombing the bejeesus ...

US reforms open doors for tax-savvy advice

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
Financial planners in the US have welcomed proposed reforms that will call to an end a government ruling that stops them from recommending certain tax strategies. The planning industry welcomed the decision of the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary ...

Trustees told to rethink ins cover strategies

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
Super fund trustees warned to rethink cover strategies in light of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) ruling regarding premiums paid by funds for insurance policies providing total and permanent disability (TPD) cover. The ATO general draft ruling ...

Large funds use scale to boost after-tax savings

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
An after-tax optimisation tool available to super funds called 'propagation' is proving too expensive to run in practice and, at current prices, is only cost-effective for multi-billion super funds, research shows. In its paper, Towers Watson studied ...

Asset Super mulls merger

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2011
... activity is alive and well and there's a lot of talk," said John Paul, the fund's CEO. "We still have an open mind and not ruling out we're not going down that path," he said. The $1.4 billion fund, however, is treading cautiously. Paul said they will ...

New ETF player targets niche assets

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2011
... have, the more people will use them in their investment process so you'll gain a bigger market," he said. The firm is not ruling out introducing leveraged, property and infrastructure ETFs in the future. In the one month of trading, BetaShares' financials ...

Perpetual settles over Mahogany

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
Perpetual Trustee Company has settled a long running legal dispute on behalf of 1,000 retail investors who bought $125 million of notes issued by a subsidiary of Lehman Brothers. The details of the settlement cannot be disclosed for six months, but ...