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Reverse mortgages to mature: SEQUAL

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2007
Increased competition in the reverse mortgage industry will see product providers fine-tuning their existing products and contracts rather than rushing new products to market, according to Keiren Dell, chief executive officer of the Senior Australians ...

Vision Super goes public

NICK OLIVER  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2007
Vision Super has been granted a public offer licence and will soon be launching its new public offer Vision Superannuation Fund (VSF). The new fund will be based on the current fund but will include new products and features, enabling the employer-sponsored ...

Small cap suffers a shake up

Standard & Poor's Fund Services has placed an 'On Hold' rating on BlackRock's global small cap funds and downgraded the Australian small companies funds from Credit Suisse Asset Management Australia (CSAMA) after the departures of their small cap portfolio ...

Perpetual repatriates UK pension benefits

NICK OLIVER  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2007
The British pensions regulator, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, has awarded Perpetual Wealthfocus 'Qualifying Registered Overseas Pension Scheme' (QROPS) status as part of recent legislative changes. This recognition means that UK expatriates will ...

NAB wary of private equity but keen to play

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2007
National Australia Bank's institutional banking arm, nabCapital, will continue to do private equity work, despite the view within the bank that the higher level of activity in private equity was increasing its risk profile. NAB chief executive John ...

Agribusiness cops a caning from ATO

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2007
Non-forestry agribusiness managed investment schemes (MIS) are set to have their taxation position drastically altered after Assistant Treasurer Peter Dutton yesterday announced the Australian Taxation Office was preparing a new Draft Ruling on the ...

Ord Minnett STRIPES steps up the pace in Asia

Ord Minnett's STRIPES Asia Accelerator fund posted a 30 per cent gain over the past 12 months, proving that even though the 'Asia boom' story may be a well-worn theme the returns certainly aren't wearing out. STRIPES Asia Accelerator invests in five ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2007
Some good news with respect to Australia's skills development and technological strength following the announcement by Education, Science and Training Minister Julie Bishop that the national science organisation CSIRO will receive $2.5 billion in funding. ...

ASFA targets extra super contributions

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2007
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has called on the Federal Government to introduce 'soft compulsion' opt-out arrangements for additional employee super contributions and to make co-contribution benefits more readily available ...

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 ...