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Super rules will always change

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2007
Superannuation rules will always be changing and the industry just has to accept this, said Ramani Venkatramani, general manager for specialised institutions at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). "Most organisations complaining about ...

CalPERS pre-empts healthcare funding crisis

As more companies and individuals grapple with the problem of underinsurance and inadequate healthcare savings, the largest public pension fund in the US has come up with a tidy solution packaged in what it calls a "pre-funding" trust fund. The $300 ...

Budget super changes not for low budgets

Anne-Marie Corboy, the chief executive of award-winning super fund HESTA, has urged the government to abolish the contributions tax and get rid of the $450 income per month threshold, arguing that the recent Budget changes are for the rich and have ...

FPA member fined and expelled

NICK OLIVER  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2007
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has expelled a member in the continuing fallout from the Westpoint disaster. Western Australian planner Annemieke de Boer of Centro Financial Synergy was charged with 35 breaches of the FPA's Code of Ethics and ...

Stenham wins best long-term FOHF

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2007
... "Equity markets have performed well and interest rates have been historically low, how long this continues we don't know. As a rule, we stay away from leverage within our portfolio." Arenson visited Australia last month to talk with investors and he ...

In-specie transfers up 300 per cent: Multiport

Investors are transferring as many assets as they can into their self-managed super funds (SMSFs) to take advantage of the government's new super rules that will come into effect in July. SMSF administration services provider Multiport said the number ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
... concession as the intellectual property rights reside elsewhere. The biotech industry has said that the relaxation of this rule would allow the smaller companies within the industry to join with those with higher capital from overseas to better fund ...

MFAA rules under fire

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2007
... members. An MFAA member went to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) in November complaining that the rule was a form of coercion akin to third-line forcing. MFAA chief executive Phil Naylor said members met last July to review the ...

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 ...

Employers should give TFNs to super funds: Mercer

NICK OLIVER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2007
Australians could be spared a hefty tax hit on employer super contributions if disclosure rules were amended so employers could provide super funds with employee tax file numbers, according to Mercer. As part of the new superannuation rules set to come ...