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Joy Palmer Foundation established to promote ESG

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... passed away late last year after battling breast cancer. She was also a previous South Australian Chairperson of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia and a Board member of AGEST. Statewide Superannuation Trust Chairperson Nick Begakis ...

Irish pensions suffer 25pc loss

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
... a quarter of its value in 2008 - losing nearly $38 billion to December last year. According to the latest Irish Association of Pension Funds' annual asset allocation survey, the assets of pension schemes in the country fell $38 billion to $126 billion ...

Super funds to show long-term returns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
... no longer need to send a written or electronic statement, subject to their member's permission. Pauline Vamos, Association of Super Funds Australia (ASFA) chief executive, welcomed the new regulation and said it would help the Australian public better ...

Make love not leverage

... economy. It fell below 50 in December 2007 - later timed by NBER as the start of the US recession. The National Association of Realtors reported that US pending home sales rose by 2.1 per cent inn February after falling by 7.7 per cent in the previous ...

The ABC of trustee duty

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2009
... new education course for super fund trustees looking to improve the governance of their investment process. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has teamed up with fi360 Australasia to offer the Accredited Investment Fiduciary course ...

Less tax on financial advice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
... the most benefit. Chris Pearce, shadow minister for financial services, superannuation and corporate law, told an Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) luncheon yesterday, that tax deductibility rules around financial advice are mixed as low income ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
... it would work, leading to a plunge on Wall Street that sliced 380 points from the Dow. Meanwhile, the National Association of Realtors' existing home sales report was overwhelmingly positive for the market although it showed a decline in home prices ...

SMSF in-house asset rules and disclosure flawed

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... but at the same time, require them to provide a detailed investment strategy. Speaking at the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) conference in Adelaide, University of NSW law academic Gordon Cooper welcomed news that the ATO would work ...

Beggar thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... subsidies. The establishment of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Association of Southeast Asian Countries (ASEAN) and more recently, the Eurozone was aimed at bringing down these barriers to free-er ...

Battle of the super brands

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
... certain funds to win a massive new client base. Andrew Inwood, principal of brandmanagement who spoke at yesterday's Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia luncheon in Sydney, said the Industry Super Funds' "the market is off, but at least ...