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Australia at heart of new Asia-centric world order

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
Australia will be one of the countries most impacted by the seismic shift which will put Asia at the centre of a new world order. That is the opinion of the dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and ...

SAS Trustee renews Pillar admin contract

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
SAS Trustee Corporation (STC) has awarded Pillar another five year contract to provide administration services, including support for their complex defined benefits schemes. STC has some of the largest defined benefits schemes in Australia and the fifth ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

Towers Watson urges instos to consider smart beta

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... building blocks of equity portfolios have evolved beyond market cap-weighted passive equity and active management with a third pillar - smart beta - targeting systematic factors, non-market cap stock weighting or thematic investment opportunities, to ...

Investec to sell local professional banking arm

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
Investec will offload its Australian professional banking division to Bank of Queensland for $440 million. The jettisoned professional finance division includes Investec's deposits business, and its asset finance and leasing businesses in Australia. ...

SPAA urges concessional cap rethink

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... do so." On superannuation tax concessions, SPAA advocates that its fiscal cost be considered in the context of the three pillar retirement income system to accurately reflect the long-term nature of superannuation. "SPAA has previously argued that the ...

Super must not commingle with banks: ISA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
... by sales and advice personnel." ISA chief executive David Whiteley urged the panel to view superannuation as a "second pillar" of the economy, separate from the banking sector. "A second pillar would create needed diversity in the sources of funding," ...

Transaction-based fees hurt private banking clients

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2013
... "Our belief is that if we represent the client's interest first then everything else will follow. Trust is the central pillar of this business and clients deserve the right advice. It's the only way to engender genuine trust."

NSW govt to reconsider Pillar privatisation

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
The NSW Government is considering the sale of state-owned superannuation member administrator Pillar Administration after a period of poor financial performance. Pillar posted net losses of $2.2 million for the 2011-12 financial year and appears to ...

Elders to axe 10% of workforce

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
Elders will cut 10% of its workforce as part of a business reorganisation which aims to cope with the operating costs of several initiatives that the group has undertaken over the previous years. It is still unclear if the Elders financial planning ...