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Age pension kept at highest indexation rate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... superannuation guarantee, industry representative groups agree Australians will need to put more money in to their super accounts after changes to the Age Pension were announced in the federal budget. Most changes to the Age Pension came as no surprise ...

Link Group moves up in Melbourne

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... including AustralianSuper, Hostplus, HESTA, Cbus and MTAA Super - Link Group now administers more than 10 million member accounts across all its client funds. The integration of Superpartners into Link Group will see Superpartners' client funds transitioning ...

AMP wealth management grows AUM

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... of Q1 2015, an increase of $809 million on the same period last year. At the end of March AMP SMSF had 15,181 customer accounts under administration (including SuperIQ) down from 15,462 at the end of Q4 2014. The first quarter report also showed AMP ...

ASIC says AUD spike "not misconduct"

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... all markets." Further, the trading data it has investigated thus far indicates "position unwinds by automated trading accounts linked to risk management logic and not misconduct". "The Australian Dollar being ranked the fourth most traded currency pair ...

SMA usage climbs

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
One in five (20%) financial advisers are now using separately managed accounts for investors, according to research by JBWere and Investment Trends. This is the highest level of usage recorded, indicating both the growing client preference for the transparency ...

Super lump sum myth debunked

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... lump sum. The remaining 83.3% of assets were rolled over to an account based pension. However, the index shows that more accounts withdrew lump sums (58.9% or 224,000) than took income streams (156,000 or 41.1%). This suggests that members with high ...

TAL pays out $1bn

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... said majority of claims were taken out to help people while still living and that payment in the event of a death now accounts for 47.4% of benefits paid. Cancer features as the top reason for TAL's claims in 2014, accounting for 24.1% of all payments ...

Industry responds to Grattan report

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... report's conclusions were misleading due to its overuse of averages, noting that it calculated the average number of super accounts per person as four. "The bottom line, though, is 55% of people only have one account," she continued. "Some people have ...

Grattan issues new report on super fees

ALEX BURKE, ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... government should address through policy. These are that in addition to fees being too high it believes there are too many accounts being maintained by super funds and there are too many super funds. To encourage fund rationalisation, the Grattan Institute ...

The bad and the bad and the bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... security brokerages - Citic Securities, Haitong Securities and Guotai Junan Securities - from opening new margin trading accounts for the next three months. For every stock that rose on the index, nine fell." The Shanghai Composite Index has appreciated ...