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Asset Super's strategic investment shift

NICK OLIVER  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2007
... in line with the fund's desire to seek out additional value for its members, while remaining within its established risk budget," said ASSET chief executive John Paul. ASSET will reduce its Australian equities portfolio by $26million, its international ...

Super funds could offer transaction banking

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2007
... even transaction banking facilities to their retired members under the Simplified Super changes announced in last year's Budget. The abolition of taxes on super benefits, both pensions and lump sums (for those aged 60 or over) and the abolition of compulsory ...

QIC moves AQR mandate to long-short

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2007
... investment was not fully utilising AQR's potential. "The switch to the Released Constraint strategy is a better use of our risk budget and an example of where we are able to work with a manager to achieve a superior outcome for our investors," Liddell ...

Salary sacrifice now three times more powerful

Salary sacrifice will become an even more powerful saving tool for Gen-Xers under Costello's latest Budget, allowing those 35 and under the option of saving at least three times more than in previous years. According to MLC, under existing rules, those ...

All is not lost

... acknowledged that the $9.7 billion sum could balloon even further and has included a new ruling in the latest Costello budget that will give the ATO more resources to reunite individuals with their lost super. A spokesman from Ausfund, one of the country's ...

SG at 9 per cent is enough: Watson Wyatt

... are stepping up their efforts to convince the government to include extra contribution initiatives in the 2007-08 Federal Budget. Michelle Baltazar

ASFA targets extra super contributions

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2007
... contributions and to make co-contribution benefits more readily available to low and middle income earners. As part of its pre-Budget submission to the Federal Government, ASFA has proposed the introduction of an opt-out arrangement for employees where ...

HESTA gives members free super advice

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2007
HESTA Super Fund has announced it will offer all its members free superannuation planning advice in the workplace through its network of Superannuation Service Advisers (SSA). HESTA members can arrange to meet an SSA in their workplace for personal ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2006
While the Western Australian Government is expected to announce a revised estimate of the State budget above the $1.27 billion already forecast from the May budget, a survey by BankWest and the WA Chamber of Commerce and Industry found that in all 16 ...

ATO to create single lost super gateway

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2006
... superannuation schemes. In other legislative news, the Streamlining Superannuation legislative package stemming from the Federal Budget has been introduced into Parliament. Treasurer Peter Costello said as a result of the reforms, in the vast majority ...