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E*TRADE tax tools free for all

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2009
E*TRADE's deal with Praemium to provide a free tax reporting service to retail investors is one step closer to being launched. The Tax Tools Standard Service provides a comprehensive report at the end of each financial year, detailing the investor's ...

HESTA improves insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2009
The $13 billion HESTA has improved its income protection and death covers - all without an increase to the premiums charged to members. Currently, members with HESTA's default insurance generally have two units of death cover and two units of income ...

ASIC flags end-of-year signposts

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
The financial services watchdog ASIC is calling on listed financial services companies to provide more disclosure on their 'going concern' assumptions, asset valuations and hedging arrangements when they file their 30 June 2009 financial reports. Following ...

Plum wins mandates

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
Plum Financial Services has won mandates to administer the super arrangements of the Victorian Organisation Royal Automobile Club of Victoria and Merck Sharp & Dohme (Australia). The deals will see Plum administer services to the two funds which have ...

OECD vindicates govt super reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
The OECD has vindicated the government's Budget strategy for reforming retirement income policy when it revealed that Australia has the fourth highest poverty rate among the OECD countries for seniors and retirees. The finding lands a fatal blow to ...

Job freezes to thaw: Watson Wyatt

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
More than 60 per cent of companies that froze all recruitment due to the global financial crisis are relaxing their hiring policies as more signs of economic recovery emerge. A new survey by Watson Wyatt show that 62 per cent of companies that put hiring ...

AGEST Super upgrades insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
AGEST Super has improved the fund's insurance arrangement to members. The latest AGEST Super member newsletter announced that cover levels have been improved for different age groups, members can now transfer existing cover into AGEST Super and members ...

Cooper targets investment fees

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
Investment management fees may be on the chopping block following the upcoming Cooper review on super - but one fund manager cautions that reviewing fees is not enough, and equal attention should be paid to understanding the incentives behind high fees. ...

BlackRock to buy Barclays Global Investors...

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
BlackRock has signed a purchase agreement to buy Barclays Global Investors including its ETF platform, iShares, to create a $3.3 trillion (US$2.7 trillion) asset management giant. According to a media statement released this morning, the deal will see ...

Tower wins Master Super contract

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
The $554 million Master Super has appointed Tower Australia as its new insurer starting 1 July. Following a recent review, Tower was appointed the new insurer due to an overall reduction in the cost of insurance for members, said the fund in a member ...